Re: Smoking. Was: Clarke Award Finalists 2001

In article <102qvdj$26rs3$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 17/06/25 07:00, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
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but all that I can remember about them is: more smoking than in Doc Smith.
 

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I was surprised at characters spending more time smoking cigarettes than
sticking to the plot in some recent reads.
Meet the Tiger. Leslie Charteris.
The Ministry of Time. Kaliane Bradley.
Hardwired. Walter Jon Williams.
The worst was non SF, Vengeance by Benjamin Black.

Bulldog Drummond caters to every taste:

He waved vaguely at the lady in question and then held out
his cigarette-case to the girl. "Turkish on this side--Virginian
on that," he remarked. "And as I appear satisfactory, will
you tell me who I'm to murder?"

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