I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. ↗
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other. ↗
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. ↗