novelette

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.

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

Martin’s 2014 novelette that supplies much of the first season’s narrative — as the brutal head of King’s Landing’s City Watch, decapitating defenseless civilians.

“White Cat, Black Dog,” her fifth collection, is a set of seven slipstream short stories that edge, in length, toward novelettes.

"The CRT theory is reflected in the novelettes and the booklets and the projects and the storylines and themes," Bessinger said.