Re: Smoking. Was: Clarke Award Finalists 2001

Titus G 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.

In many of his works, the moments the characters spend smoking make the difference between their drinking themselves to death immediately, and a somewhat postponed death.
William Hyde