Asimov (Foundation series and robot stories/novels), Ursula K. Le Guin (Left Hand of Darkness especially, short stories are great), Walter Miller (A Canticle for Leibowitz), Patrick Tilley (Fade-Out), Heinlein (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), William Gibson (Neuromancer) Left Hand won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards as the year's "best novel" according to convention participants and science fiction writers respectively.3 In 1987, Locus: The magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field ranked it number two among "All-Time Best SF Novels", based on a poll of subscribers.4a That same year, Harold Bloom edited a critical anthology about the book and said in the introduction that "Le Guin, more than Tolkien, has raised fantasy into high literature, for our time".5.
Robert Heinlein is very famous for science fiction. He is the one that got me hooked on reading in the 6th grade.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.