Widescreen baroque

The cover of Galaxy Science Fiction, featuring The Stars My Destination, one of the first widescreen baroque stories.

Widescreen baroque, sometimes stylized with a space or dash in "widescreen", is a style of science fiction writing "characterized by larger-than-life characters, violence, intrigue, extravagant settings or actions, and fast-paced plotting". It is closely aligned with, and an outgrowth of, space opera fiction. The term was coined by Brian Aldiss. It is most often applied by literary critics, rather than authors.

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