World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.