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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

The latter was based on his experience copywriting for a press agent, which inspired a novelette in Cosmopolitan called “Tell Me About It Tomorrow!”

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Both novels are set in the “punch-card-punk” world that Kowal established in her 2013 novelette, “The Lady Astronaut of Mars.”

From The Verge ● Sep. 18, 2018

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

From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2014

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


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