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
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
“With One Coin for Fee”, novelette in Experiment, Coward-McCann 1938, 1939, 1940.
From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
