Thread: Hugo 2020 Award Winners
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Old 08-14-2020, 04:48 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If a story has exactly 17,500 words, is it a novella or is it a novelette?
If a story has exactly 40,000 words, is it a novella or a novel?
You didn't bother to read the definition of novel. 40,000 words is explicitly a novel.

To be consistent with the other definitions a 17,500 word book is a novella.

[40000, ...) novel
[17500, 40000) novella
[7500, 17500) novelette
(..., 7500) short story

Presumably, there is a lower limit for short story, but none is given. It might be nice to know what the shortest published Hugo eligible short story is.

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