Does anyone know of any studies of the role of music in science fiction literature (not film or tv please)? I ask because I’ve just read Fred Hoyle’s October The First Is Too Late in which music features prominently - much to the dismay and, in some cases, disgust of the book’s early reviewers!

Although it should not have come as much of a surprise as Hoyle’s mum Mabel studied at the Royal Academy of Music and taught piano. And Hoyle himself was passionate about classical music even writing a couple of pieces with American composer Leo Smit.