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novelette

[nov-uh-let] / ˌnɒv əˈlɛt /


NOUN
short story
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You know the species because androids have been a mainstay of science fiction since before Isaac Asimov coined the “three laws of robotics” for a novelette published in 1942.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

Your Lady Astronaut novels were an outgrowth of your original novelette, “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” originally published in 2013.

From The Verge • Sep. 18, 2018

“It appears as though the novelette was unfinished business for her.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2014

In a time when some of our finest novelists have turned to the novelette length — Philip Roth, Ian McEwan — Barnes outshines them all.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2011

This Pauline’s adventures evidently demanded more space than the travels could afford, and became ultimately a novelette.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)




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