Prog rock and space opera

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Today's Graun has unmasked Peter F Hamilton's somewhat progressive musical tastes:

...writing while listening to Muse (Black Holes & Revelations, naturally), Pink Floyd and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells on his iPod, Hamilton churns out these huge tomes almost annually.

I'm not particularly surprised. If space opera is widescreen baroque writing, then prog rock must be its overblown aural equivelent, making the two natural bedfellows...