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

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

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

Was she perchance the beautiful widow in the novelette who consoled the uncle for the loss of Hilarie?

From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Spielhagen, Friedrich