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I prefer longer to shorter. Back in my scifi reading days I remember not liking short stories because they were all over so soon and were often just setups for a punch line. I rarely read short stories now (no matter the genre) for the same reasons.
The story needs to be as long as it needs to be. Some are so well-done that you hate for them to end and are worth the time they take to read, while others are tedious from the get-go and the vast wasteland beyond Chapter One will never be explored. Both opinions are clearly driven by personal taste.
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