Recommend me albums where the link between Prog and Science Fiction is the most bold

[Geoff O'Donoghue]

It's specifically steampunk fantasy but my first thought was actually Rush's Clockwork Angels.

[MudShark22]

Recently I heard this album, which is clearly influenced by the work of Philip K. Dick:

High Castle Teleorkestra: The Egg That Never Opened (Radio Free Albemuth part 1)

will need to check this.....

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[JKL2000]

Most Ayreon and Arjen Lucassen-related albums.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs is heavily based on Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Genesis' "The Return of the Giant Hogweed" is a mashup of the very real British hogweed infestation (which was not a joke; that stuff had venom that would very quickly blister your skin) and John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids (1951).

[RichardGioaf.]

Dialog s vesmírem by the Czech group Progres 2 is a concept album about the first interstellar space traveller who uses his flight to Proxima Centauri as an opportunity to escape the materialistic Earth society, but ends up confronting a world of human-hating robots controlled by a computer. Oh yeah, and an atmosphere full of gaseous heroin! The story was written by the group's manager Oskar Man and while it isn't based on any single literary work, it has SF tropes galore.

That's it, that's exactly what I need for my podcast. Thanks a lot!

[Dan Maske]

Just sci-fi, or fantasy as well?

[Dana5140]

Then, you really need to do Magma, again:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/...i_avant_garde1

https://books.google.com/books?id=3d...iction&f=false

[jefftiger]

I've always thought of Brain Salad Surgery, or at least the extended Karn Evil 9 piece, as science fiction oriented. It has a dystopian outlook and references something similar to the singularity in its 3rd impression.

[RichardGioaf.]

Voivod - Nothingface

Thanks for the suggestion, "Nothingface" is a great thrash-metal album, but for something non-prog rock, I'd like to play these two songs: the Grateful Dead's song "The Music Never Stopped", which borrows a line from Alfred Bester' sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination (1956), and The Who's song "905". The latter song is a genuine science fiction ditty about a grim future in which humans are reduced to unimaginative automatons designed in test tubes.

[Trane]

"Hope" album from Klaatu

That's a goodie suggestion , and a few from their debut as well (Occupants, Uranus, Neutrino)

Also another trio from Toronto: FM's Black Noise

[PixelDelirium]

Coheed and Cambria.

[Halmyre]

He also performed with them with narration and vocals (to avoid the term singing) on a few tracks on Warriors on the Edge of Time and Sonic Attack, these albums also
contain lyrics by him. He also did some narration on Live Chronicles.

Moorcock also co-wrote 'Black Blade' on Blue Oyster Cult's 'Cultosaurus Erectus' album.

One of the more interesting things to come out of a recent Tony Banks interview was that he's a huge sci-fi fan.

One For The Vine and Get 'Em Out By Friday could be said to have science fiction themes.

Hawkwind have several others - Spirit of the Age, Sonic Attack, High Rise

Yes - Starship Trooper, albeit they only lifted the title of Heinlein's novel.

[flowerking]

Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye, Remember the Future
Phideaux - Snow Torch, Number Seven and Doomsday Afternoon might be sci fi, hard to tell
Rush - Red Barchetta
Genesis - Keep it Dark, maybe Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (fantasy)
Saga - The Chapters

[TheH]

Le Orme - Felona e Sorana is a concept album based on a SF story (and a stone cold Prog classic)

Presence - Gold is based on a SF book (forgot which one) P.S. Virginia Stait "PLANET OF THE WITCHES".

[moecurlythanu]

Hawkwind have several others -

Utopia
Robot (Most of PXR5 really
Alien 4 (album)
Heads

[kenschwartz]

perhaps i mis-read it, but didn't the OP want music specifically relating to existing pieces of sci fi literature, as opposed to songs/album with a sci fi theme?

anyway, surprised no one has mentioned one or more of these...
Alan Parsons - I Robot
Klaus Shulze - Dune
The Bongos - Barbarella (this one might not be prog, i suppose)

[Trane]

perhaps i mis-read it, but didn't the OP want music specifically relating to existing pieces of sci fi literature, as opposed to songs/album with a sci fi theme?

I thought I read it that way a first time, but the thread title doesn't say it has to be related to a book. The text of the OP is a little more specific, but maybe the request might've been explicitly written, if such is the case.

In the case of Rush in the 70's, Ayn Rand's books often served as inspiration.

[interbellum]

That's it, that's exactly what I need for my podcast. Thanks a lot!

It's more or less comparable with The Interstellar Suite by Amin Bhatia (the booklet that came with the 25th anniversary edition contained a track-by-track companion guide):

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

What is being forgotten here is that the OP asked for works with connections (I think they said "links") to sf "literature". That means written stuff, not movies, and definitely something (however good) based on the musician's own SF ideas -- in other words, not things like "Get 'em Out by Friday" or the collected works of Christian Vander. An excellent example kenschwartz cited above is Alan Parsons's I, Robot, which is (loosely) based on Isaac Asimov's book of the same name. I presume that Klaus Schulze's Dune has a similar relationship to the book of that title by Frank Herbert. Though I think my favorite example was "Watcher of the Skies", with its relationships to Clarke's Childhood's End, and also to Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer":
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken

(There is a metric butt-ton of English poetry referenced in Gabriel-era Genesis songs.)

[Zeuhlmate]

Gong

[RichardGioaf.]

perhaps i mis-read it, but didn't the OP want music specifically relating to existing pieces of sci fi literature, as opposed to songs/album with a sci fi theme?

Music that is just inspired by sci-fi literature in general, or based on a particular read, whatever.

[RichardGioaf.]

It's more or less comparable with The Interstellar Suite by Amin Bhatia (the booklet that came with the 25th anniversary edition contained a track-by-track companion guide):

Perfect! Thank you very much!

[RichardGioaf.]

Olias of Sunhillow. It provides its own story, though; it isn't derived from any 70's sci-fi works.

For me, a flawless blend of “fantasy” and sci-fi. I will definitely include "Solid Space".

[rdclark]

Jefferson Airplane/Starship. Science fiction permeates their entire body of work.

Examples:

The post-apocalyptic "Wooden Ships." The song "Crown of Creation," which directly quotes a John Wyndham novel. The first Starship album, "Blows Against the Empire," about the hijacking of a starship and the search for a new home for humanity. (This album was actually nominated for a Hugo Award.)

[RichardGioaf.]

Van der Graaf Generator included some sci-fi themed songs on their early albums, like "Pioneers Over C"

Thank you for reminding me. "Pioneers Over c" is certainly an interesting case.