Novelette

Also spelled novelet. A term for Prose Fiction that takes the form of a very short Novel—even shorter than a Novella. Is defined by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as any work between 7500 and 17499 words. Due to their brevity, novelettes share many tropes with the Short Story but are long enough to be similar to the Novella in many respects.

Novelettes are short enough that they are rarely published as standalone works. For this reason, their names are usually printed in double-quotes, as with short-stories, rather than italics, as with novels and (some) novellas.

Compare: Novel, Novella, Short Story.

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Examples:

• "Admiral's Inspection"
• "All The Traps Of Earth"
• "And Then There Was One"
• "The Assaultmen"
• "Autofac"
• "The Bicentennial Man"
• "Black Destroyer"
• "The Black Lamp"
• "Blowups Happen"
• "The Blue Giraffe"
• "The Blue Men Of Yrano"
• "Breeds There a Man...?"
• "Brink Of Madness"
• "The Cambist and Lord Iron"
• "Captain Nemos Last Adventure"
• "Chronopolis"
• "City Of The Corporate Mind"
• "City Of The Cosmic Rays"
• "Classic Singapore Horror Stories"
• "Cold"
• "The Cold Equations"
• "Consider Her Ways"
• "Co-Operate - Or Else!"
• "Day After Tomorrow"
• "The Dead Past"
• "Describe A Circle"
• "Discord In Scarlet"
• "Dominion and Duchy"
• "Drop Dead"
• "The Dying Night"
• "Elsewhere"
• "The Emancipated"
• "Emergence"
• "The Encyclopedists"
• "Evidence"
• "The Evitable Conflict"
• "Fairest of All"
• "Far Centaurus"
• "Feminine Intuition"
• "First Contact"
• "Forces Must Balance!"
• "Forgetfulness"
• "Galley Slave"
• "Gemmalie"
• "Goldfish Bowl"
• "Grandpa"
• "Greater Than Gods"
• "The Gryb"
• "Heritage"
• "Highsong"
• "The Hunters Of Cutwold"
• "Hostess"
• "In a Good Cause—"
• "Inconstant Moon"
• "El Inquisidor De Mexico"
• "Invulnerable"
• "The Iron Chancellor"
• "It's Such a Beautiful Day"
• "The Kilkenny Cats"
• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars"
• "The Loathsome Beasts"
• "A Kind Of Artistry"
• "The Luck Of Ignatz"
• "Lulungomeena"
• "A Meeting With Medusa"
• "Maiden Voyage"
• "The Man Who Could Levitate"
• "A Martian Odyssey"
• "The Mayors"
• "The Merchant Princes"
• "Microcosmic God"
• "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"
• "Misfit"
• "Mission: Hypnosis"
• "Monopoly"
• "Mother Earth"
• "The Mutineers"
• "My Name Is Legion 1942"
• "New Men For Mars"
• "Nightfall (1941)"
• "Nine Lives"
• "Of Mist And Grass And Sand"
• "Ohne Schatten"
• "Once Within A Time"
• "On Pain Of Death"
• "On The Inside Track"
• "Party Line"
• "The Phantom Of Kansas"
• "Pierre Maurignacs Abenteuer"
• "Planet Of Parasites"
• "Pleasure Trove"
• "Poor Superman"
• "Power Plant"
• "Prison Planet"
• "The Professor Was A Thief"
• "The Proud Robot"
• "Pushover Planet"
• "A Question Of Salvage"
• "Reincarnate"
• "Risk"
• "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"
• "Runaround"
• "Sam Hall"
• "Saurian Valedictory"
• "Scanners Live in Vain"
• "Second Variety"
• "The Sheriff Of Canyon Gulch"
• "Silence Is—Deadly"
• "Slime (1953)"
• "Special Flight"
• "Solution Unsatisfactory"
• "The Songs of Distant Earth"
• "Stranger Station"
• "Ticket To Anywhere"
• "Time Dredge"
• "The Tool Of Creation"
• "Triceratops"
• "Twilight"
• "The Ugly Little Boy"
• "Universe"
• "Vintage Season"
• "Weihnachtsabend"
• "Wenn Die Bildschirme Schweigen"
• "Who Am I?"
• "The Witches of Karres"
• "The Wizards Of Pungs Corners"
• "A World Called Maanerek"

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