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 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
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
The large bed was ruffled where she had been lying down, and the soiled copy of a novelette gave it a sort of stale slovenry.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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