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
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
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
She had a book in her hand, not a college text-book but a novelette; and probably the whole of the novelette was in her glad change of tone.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.