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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small new book.
  • noun Same as novelette.

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Examples

  • The Crystal StairAug. 5th, 2008 | 11: 02 pm raecarson gives the skinny here, but the short version (and can the skinny have a short version?) is that "The Crystal Stair," the novelet we co-authored, will be appearing in an upcoming issue (or more likely issues -- I always have issues) of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the new literary adventure fantasy magazine.

    Sale! The Crystal Stair raecarson 2008

  • I just signed contracts with a French publisher for my novelet "Elegy for Angels and Dogs."

    Elegy for Angels and Dogs Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • F&SF bought my Revolutionary War/magic novelet, "The Minutemen's Witch."

    ccfinlay: First Sale of 2007 ccfinlay 2007

  • F&SF bought my Revolutionary War/magic novelet, "The Minutemen's Witch."

    First Sale of 2007 johnjosephadams 2007

  • Any such list which includes SHANE and the unspectacular film THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING ... (unless the novel was dreadful) and thinks that Du Maurier's novelet "The Birds" was a novel ... clearly doesn't know enough to include RED ALERT/DR.

    Movies Better than the Books They're Based On? Bill Crider 2007

  • I just signed contracts with a French publisher for my novelet "Elegy for Angels and Dogs."

    Archive 2009-04-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • A chilling tale in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 and Logan's Run - the sort of dystopian narrative where a protagonist policeman who previously hasn't questioned his society wakes up to the knowledge that he is doing very bad things - the novelet is screaming for a Hollywood option and subsequent screenplay adaptation.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Lou Anders 2006

  • A chilling tale in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 and Logan's Run - the sort of dystopian narrative where a protagonist policeman who previously hasn't questioned his society wakes up to the knowledge that he is doing very bad things - the novelet is screaming for a Hollywood option and subsequent screenplay adaptation.

    World Fantasy Convention Report Lou Anders 2006

  • Will you be doing a novelet/novella volume again, Ed?

    Short fiction Ed Gorman 2008

  • The final story in the book is a novelet “Me⋅Topia,” by Adam Roberts, which has some very strange premises: a group of neanderthal scientists in a spacecraft abruptly crash on the surface of a planet which seemingly appeared out of nowhere directly in front of their ship.

    Archive 2007-01-01 adamosf 2007

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