SF Paraphernalia

When I read sf in the 1960's, it was enough for me then that this was prose sf addressed to adults and featuring spaceships and other sf paraphernalia. It was taken for granted that familiar ideas like telepathy, immortality and robots could enter a narrative at any time. I remember among many other works of that period:

After Doomsday by Poul Anderson

Earthman, Come Home by James Blish

Fury by Henry Kuttner

Nowadays, I do not keep up with new sf and older works must match up to much stronger criteria if they are to be worth rereading. Anderson's The People Of The Winds vividly depicts individuals and communities on a colonized planet anticipating, enduring and surviving a war. The opening dialogue sets the tone:

"'Any day we may be at war. We may already be.'"

-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, March 2011), pp. 437-662 AT I, p. 437.

From that moment, we live the Terran War with the Avalonians and with some of the Terrans.