Novelettes are such an awkward length. Just enough more of a time sink than short stories to make it easy to put them off, but still effectively just a short story without the space to go deep the way a novella can. However even just a couple of thousand words extra allows for so much …
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2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette Finalists
Alright, I finished my Hugo reading just before voting closed, and now I present my thoughts on this year's novelettes. Whilst writing these reviews, I realised that I tend to not find novelettes as exciting or memorable as short stories and novellas. Or at least, I haven't come across as many novelettes that got to …
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2016 Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories
Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories Maybe this post is a bit late. I’ve been quiet lately because I wanted to catch up on some of the best short fiction from last year, and if I stopped to write a review of each story I’d quickly lose all my reading time. And also, I’ve been …
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2016 Hugo Awards: Novelettes
Novelette Reviews Finally finished reading those in-between length stories, the novelettes. The Rabid Puppies almost got a clean sweep of this category. Two of their nominees (Flashpoint: Titan and What Price Humanity) were from an anthology called There Will Be War Vol.X, which also contains the short story Seven Kill Tiger. Given how much I disliked …
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