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Introduction: Novelette, Over EasyKeith R.A. DeCandidoNovelette is a really silly word.
Ask the average person on the street what a novelette is, and they're most likely to say that it's a kind of egg dish or they'll think it's a malapropism for
novelty. Most people are familiar with the terms
novel and
short story, but once you get into the more esoteric subcategories like
novella and
novelette, you are met with looks of abject confusion.
However, a novelette is the ideal length for a speculative fiction story.
My personal definition of SF which, for the purposes of this discussion, applies to fantasy, science fiction, and certain types of horror is that it's the world we live in with at least one major change. Sometimes that change is as simple as moving forward or backward in time. Sometimes it's that va ...
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