For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:

It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine Analog Science Fact & Fiction, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for best novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award in the same category.

This book is a mathematical novelette, and is notable as one of the rare cases where a new mathematical idea was first presented in a work of fiction.

The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.

Lehman makes the distinction in an interview that Winchell was the inspiration for the version of the character in the novelette, and that this differs from the character in the film version.

The story of Sigmund, beginning with the marriage of Signy to Siggeir and ending with Sigmund's vengeance on Siggeir, was retold in the novelette " Vengeance " by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, which appeared in the magazine Adventure, June 30, 1925.

Emphasizing fiction in the 1940s, it was subtitled The Four-Book Magazine since the first section had one novelette, six or eight short stories, two serials, six to eight articles and eight or nine special features, while the other three sections featured two novels and a digest of current non-fiction books.

* In the Distance, and Ahead in Time a Macrolife novelette, was published in Amazing Stories in 1993.

Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette " The Locusts ", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.

It also contains the novelette " Paladin of the Lost Hour ", which won a Hugo award for best novelette and was later converted by Ellison into an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.

It was long thought that Hawthorne originally planned The Scarlet Letter to be a shorter novelette which was part of a collection to be named Old Time Legends and that his publisher, James Thomas Fields, convinced him to expand the work to a full-length novel.

Norton was twice nominated for the Hugo Award, in 1964 for the novel Witch World and in 1967 for the novelette " Wizard's World.

In 1991, Ellin Nickelsen's novelette Jonk Bradlep ( Dark Wedding ) was published.

It was awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best science fiction novelette of 1976.

Gerrold's novelette " The Martian Child " won both Hugo and Nebula awards, and was adapted into a film starring John Cusack.

* Elwood's 1973 anthology Showcase contains Silverberg's novelette Breckenridge and the Continuum, which was chosen by Terry Carr for The Best Science Fiction of the Year # 3 ( 1974 ), as well as " The Childhood of the Human Hero " by Carol Emshwiller, which was included in Nebula Award Stories 9, edited by Kate Wilhelm.

The first published was the fantasy story " King, Dragon " in Andromeda 2 in 1977 ; the second was the science fiction novelette " Not Absolute " in Andromeda 3 in 1978.

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published.

Episode writer Norman Spinrad based the script on a novelette " The Planet Eater " that had been rejected by a number of publishers.

# " The Phoenix on the Sword " ( novelette ; vol.

# " The Scarlet Citadel " ( novelette ; vol.

# " The Tower of the Elephant " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Black Colossus " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Xuthal of the Dusk " ( novelette ; vol.

# " The Pool of the Black One " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Rogues in the House " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Iron Shadows in the Moon " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Queen of the Black Coast " ( novelette ; vol.

# " The Devil in Iron " ( novelette ; vol.

# " A Witch Shall be Born " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Jewels of Gwahlur " ( novelette ; vol.

# " Man-Eaters of Zamboula " ( novelette ; vol.

The original novelette " Ender's Game " provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School ; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth.

Several of his stories have been nominated for the genre's awards ; " The Ugly Chickens " -- about the extinction of the dodo -- won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981 ; this is perhaps his best known work.

* Woman in the Dark ( Knopf, 1988 ; hardcover edition that collects the three parts of the title novelette ; introduction by Robert B. Parker ).

A classic science fiction fan novelette, The Enchanted Duplicator by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw, is explicitly modeled on The Pilgrim's Progress ; it has been repeatedly reprinted over the decades since its first appearance in 1954: in professional publications, in fanzines and as a monograph.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novel if it is 40, 000 words or longer ; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette, and novella categories.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novella if it is between 17, 500 and 40, 000 words ; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story and novelette categories, as well as for longer in the novel category.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novelette if it is between 7, 500 and 17, 500 words ; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story category, as well as for longer in the novella and novel categories.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is fewer than 7, 500 words long ; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novelette, novella, and novel categories.

Annually since 1965, SFWA members select by vote the Nebula Awards for best short story, novelette, novella, and novel published during the previous year, where the four categories are defined by numbers of words.

The story of Völsung and his children from the marriage of Signy to Siggeir to Sigmund's vengeance on Siggeir is retold in the novelette " Vengeance " by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, which appeared in the magazine Adventure, June 30, 1925.

* Mother Earth ( novelette ), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov

Published in 1968, the novelette is based on true story of a murder that discusses the most taboo subjects in mid-20th century Liberia as the story reveals the lives of the main characters and their hometown.

If a film is based on a story shorter than a novel — such as a short story, novelette, or novella — a tie-in book may be published featuring the adapted story as well as other stories from the same author.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novel if it is 40, 000 words or longer ; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette, and novella categories.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novella if it is between 17, 500 and 40, 000 words ; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novel category, and for shorter lengths in the short story and novelette categories.

Awards are also given out for published literary works in the novel, novella, novelette, and short story categories.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novelette if it is between 7, 500 and 17, 500 words ; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novel and novella categories, and for shorter lengths in the short story category.

A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is less than 7, 500 words ; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novel, novella, and novelette categories.

The novelette An Account Of A Meeting With Denizens Of Another World 1871, is an entertaining account of a UFO encounter, as experienced by a Victorian, but is notable chiefly for the framing story, in which Langford claimed to have found the manuscript in an old desk ( the story's narrator, William Robert Loosley, is a genuine ancestor of Langford's wife ).

Because the novelette was at least once re-typed and photocopied for distribution, without provenance, many readers have found it hard to believe the story was not a collaborative effort, a satire on bad writing, or both.

The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms is usually based upon word count, with a novelette being longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella.