I reread the first one and was struck by how much smoking was included. (H. Beam Piper too) Between that and the nucleics, it really felt like 50's era SF, adm

I reread the first one and was struck by how much smoking was included. (H. Beam Piper too) Between that and the nucleics, it really felt like 50's era SF, admittedly one that held up better than the bulk of them.