novelette

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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

In 2012, author Mary Robinette Kowal published a novelette in an audio anthology called Rip-Off!, in which authors picked their favorite opening line in fiction, and used it as the basis for an original story.

From The Verge • Jun. 24, 2018

His is almost like a novelette, of course, with these words engraved by the image of a palmetto tree and crescent: “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2017

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

The scene of the novelette bears the date of 1841, and Paris, especially in many of what are known as the newer parts, has changed but little since.

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