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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

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

Have you been gobbling a surreptitious penny novelette?

From The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil


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