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
The backstory of the novelette kept picking at my brain.
From The Verge ● Sep. 18, 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
M. Hart has given us another clever novelette, by Caroline Lee Hentz, under the title of Rena.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
