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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The tough part it to figuring he what is the max length. 50 pages/20,00words is the typical starting point. it fades out around 40,00 word +- 5000 words, depending on whose defining.
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Agreed, and the current definitions used by the Hugos have involved some squabbling.
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I consider a well written novella to be some best writing there is.
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Agreed.
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Some examples. Steinbeck's The Pearl and Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
Science fiction ones include Jack Vance's The Last Castle and Sturgeon's And Baby Makes Three
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Indeed, and we could probably list others.
The fact that the distinctions are arbitrary leads to oddities, like Samuel R. Delany's "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones" winning the 1969 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. SFWA and WSFS had slightly different ideas of where you drew the line.
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Dennis