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

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

The verses of Swinburne referring to the witchery of the novelette which opens the volume, and to the peculiarly sweet and strange romance which follows, sufficiently indicate the extraordinary art of these tales.

From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile