A novelette (or novelet) is a piece of short prose fiction. The distinction of novelette compared to other literary forms, like a novel, is usually based upon word count. The Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction define the novelette as having a word count between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) in length. A word count is the number of words that a document contains. ... The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. ... The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Other classifications of fiction based upon word count are:
Composed very much with him in mind and dedicated to him, it was subsequently commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, at one of whose concerts he gave the World Premiere.
Novelette is in five movements and despite the work’s almost miniature character, its total duration is eighteen minutes.
As has happened in some of my other works, the last movement is more substantial than those which precede it, forming a kind of counterbalance to them.
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