The novella takes place in a balkanized New York City where an engineer working for the city's disaster planning section has his inside knowledge exploited to cause disasters.

Also in 2000, he wrote a digital novella, Riding the Bullet, and has said he sees e-books becoming 50 % of the market " probably by 2013 and maybe by 2012.

While the first of these novels, The Saint in Miami, has Templar stumbling upon a Nazi plot, beginning with the " Arizona " novella Templar is fighting his own war against Germany.

Her novella Paradises Lost, published in The Birthday of the World: and Other Stories, has been adapted into an opera by the American composer Stephen Andrew Taylor.

Victor's life has been fictionalized in the 2003 novel, Wild Boy by Jill Dawson, and in the title novella of the 2010 collection Wild Child and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle.

* In Mary Shelley's novella Mathilda, the author writes " It required hands stronger than mine ; stronger I do believe than any human force to break the thick, adamantine chain that has bound me ".

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

He has also written a few works of science fiction, such as the novella Medusa ( 1973 ) and the short story " Slow " ( collected in Told by the Dead ), but has stated that his science fiction " tried to deal with Themes, too consciously, I feel ".

The plot has some parallels to that of a classical Danish novella, Brudstykker af en Landsbydegns Dagbog (" Fragments from a Parish-Clerk's Diary ") by Steen Steensen Blicher ( 1824 ).

In 2011 Mongolian film director Naranbaatar has made the film adaptation of the novella.

Stephen King, in his introduction to Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, has called the novella " an ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic "; King notes the difficulties of selling a novella in the commercial publishing world, since it does not fit the typical length requirements of either magazine or book publishers.

The murder has apparently been carried out by Sherlock Holmes ( who signs his name Rache, an allusion to Doyle's first novella starring Holmes and Watson, A Study in Scarlet, in which the word Rache – German for revenge – is found written above the body of a murder victim ) and Doctor Watson.

Perhaps inspired by the Lydney Park excavations, Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan ( 1890 ; revised and expanded 1894 ) has a Roman pillar dedicated to Nodens.

Tennyson had previously treated a similar subject in " The Lady of Shalott ", published in 1833 and revised in 1842 ; however that poem was based on the thirteenth century Italian novella Donna do Scalotta, and thus has little in common with Malory's version.

The novella centres on a heroic priest who has lost his faith in immortality, yet says nothing of his doubts to his parishioners, not wanting to disturb their faith, which he recognizes is a necessary support for their lives.

The novella has been adapted three times as a motion picture, the first in 1951 as The Thing from Another World, the second in 1982 as The Thing directed by John Carpenter, and most recently as a prequel to the Carpenter version, also titled The Thing, released in 2011.

Carpenter had also directed the 1982 film The Thing, based on the 1938 John W. Campbell novella Who Goes There ?, but which also has similarities to Quatermass and the Pit: scientists discover a UFO frozen in Antarctica, and the still-alive alien found inside survives by mimicking dogs and humans, so that the humans are unable distinguish the murderous creature from those it has devoured.

In Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ( 1926 ), Randolph Carter has a fateful encounter with the High Priest Not to Be Described.

He has won " year's best " World Fantasy Awards for the novel Nifft the Lean and the novella Growlimb.

The novella has since inspired numerous similar adaptions in various genres and traditions.

She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella " Beggars in Spain " which was later expanded into a novel with the same title.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published.

Most of these pieces have been collected in King's five short story collections: Night Shift ( 1978 ), Skeleton Crew ( 1985 ), Nightmares & Dreamscapes ( 1993 ), Everything's Eventual ( 2002 ), and Just After Sunset ( 2008 ); and in King's four novella collections: Different Seasons ( 1982 ), Four Past Midnight ( 1990 ), Hearts in Atlantis ( 1999 ), and Full Dark, No Stars ( 2010 ).

The Breathing Method is a novella by Stephen King which was released as part of his Different Seasons collection in 1982, and is currently the only story in the collection not to have been made into a movie.

Philip Francis Nowlan's novella Armageddon 2419 A. D., which first appeared in the August 1928 and was the start of the long-lasting popular Buck Rogers series, depicted a future America which had been occupied and colonised by cruel invaders from China, which the hero and his friends proceed to fight and kill wholesale.

" The Sun Dog ", a novella by Stephen King that appears in the 1990 collection Four Past Midnight, gives passing mention to " a fellow in Dunwich, Massachusetts, to whom Pop had once sold a so-called spirit trumpet for ninety dollars ; the fellow had taken the trumpet to the Dunwich Cemetery and must have heard something exceedingly unpleasant, because he had been raving in a padded cell in Arkham for almost six years now, totally insane.

The Crime Wave at Blandings contains the Blandings, Mulliner and Freddie Widgeon stories, to which were added two more Drones stories, a Bingo Little story, and a novella, " The Medicine Girl ", which had been published separately in the UK as Doctor Sally ( 1932 ).

The story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer had been the subject of a number of literary and dramatic treatments over the course of the past century ; the earliest of these having been Wilhelm Hauff's 1827 novella.

At 15 – 16, 000 words this story has also been classified as a novella.

The alien Cygnusians that first appeared in the novella " Allegiances " have been brought into the domed city of Atlanta, causing quite a stir when one of them converts to the state sponsored religion.

This work, which was first released during 1976, has been published in several formats: as a collection of short stories, bearing a title starting with that of the novella, and as a stand-alone novella, usually as an art book with many photographs, or with many illustrations such as woodcuts.

He also translated a novella authored by his friend, Queen Elisabeth, under the title Răzbunare (" Revenge ")— he is known to have been annoyed by the longueurs of the piece, and struck out large portions of it to improve the flow.

The story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer was the subject of a number of literary and dramatic treatments over the course of more than a century ; the earliest of these having been Wilhelm Hauff's 1827 novella titled Jud Süß.

* The Royal Game ( or Chess Story ; Schachnovelle in the original German ), 1942 novella by Stefan Zweig, depicting a monarchist who develops, and then cannot again shed, the custom to separate his psyche into two personas, having been urged to maintain his sanity by playing chess against himself in solitary confinement

After the manuscript had been rejected by at least five publishers, Hardy gave up his attempts to sell the novel in its original form ; however, he incorporated some of its scenes and themes into later works, notably in the poem " The Poor Man and the Lady " and in the novella An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress ( 1878 ).

Yury Tynyanov, who had been researching the period for his historical novels Kyukhlya ( 1925 ) and Smert Vazir-mukhtara ( The death of the ambassador plenipotentiary, 1928 ), wrote a novella based on Dahl's story that was published in 1927.

The book has also been collected with David Drake's novella To Bring the Light in Lest Darkness Fall and To Bring The Light ( Baen Books, 1996 ), with other works by de Camp in Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp ( NESFA Press, 2005 ), and with works by other authors in Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories ( Arc Manor, 2011 ).

At 15, 672 words it has also been considered a novella.

The screamers are widely feared by the survivors of the nuclear holocaust, and references are occasionally made to them in the novella.

The story " Gilden-Fire " first appeared as an independent novella, but is most widely available as a part of most versions of the Donaldson short story collection, Daughter of Regals, 1985.

He is widely regarded as a master of the novella form, and his masterpiece A Month in the Country was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1980, when it won the Guardian Fiction Prize.

It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror.

* The novella Human Readable ( 2005 ) by Cory Doctorow is set in a future where ant-based routing is widely used for traffic and communications, and explores their potential drawbacks.