My book club wanted to do a science fiction book for a little bit of a change so I looked up old Hugo Award winners to find a good one, and find a good one I did. Shambling Towards Hiroshima is a very interesting novel. It's lots of fun because of the connection to Godzilla movies, but it is also very thoughtful and, at times, very literary. Morrow does a great job showing the effects of war and creating weapons of mass destruction on the human psyche. The way that Morrow takes a man who had no attachment to anything political and thrusts him into the efforts to scare the Japanese into surrender was, I thought, very realistic and dramatic. However, one of my club's favorite features was the fact that, when depicting the Hollywood of 1930's and 40's horror filmmakers, he combined real people, characters, and films with ones that he made up. We all felt that it made it more believable. Finally, the repercussions of the nuclear age were dealt with so sympathetically towards the end of the book it came close to making the novel heart wrenching. The only weakness we all agreed on was that there were a few things that were a little hard to believe, but, being science fiction, it's not that great of a weakness. There were also a few characters that were stock characters (specifically the naval officers and FBI agents).