John Brunner was the world's worst at this, and Vance did it once (in _To
Live Forever_), and it drives me nuts, which is to say, basing a novel on
an interesting concept fully enough to keep a novel occupied with all its
implications and the play of its characters and plots against it, _and
then_ adding another, only strainedly-related concept, which makes a final
hash of things.
"Keep it clean, people", indeed.
--
Thou canst at best but overstrain
A paradox, and thy own brain.
< _Hudibras_
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