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Typical of recent Scalzi. Absurd and entertaining with a dose of social commentary.

Part memoir and part rumination, in Question 7 Flannagan improbably connects family history, H.G. Wells, colonialism, the bombing of Hiroshima and more. A fascinating read.

Overy looks at both the decision making process leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the role of the these bombings in ending the war. An interesting reassessment of the simplistic tale typically told.

Uhlman is best known as a painter and that comes through in much of his prose. Reunion is the story of a brief friendship between two students during Hitler’s rise to power. Like in Taylor’s Address Unknown, the corrosiveness of fascism is on full display here.

Steinbeck wrote The Moon is Down for the Allied propaganda effort during WWII. A crisp little novella of the conquered and the conquerors.