boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (10/29/84)
> I just got a publicity flyer from DAW advertising M. A. Foster's > new book OWLTIME as "four short novels...a unique reading > experience." The page count for the entire book is "256pp." > That averages 64 pages per story. Unless these figures are in > base twenty (what the heck is the word for "base twenty"-- my > mind has created a black hole for this information to hide in), > these are at best novellas or perhaps even novelettes. > >They may still be good but they ain't novels. > > Evelyn C. Leeper Well, they *did* say "*short* novels". If you look up "novella" in the dictionary (the AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY, anyway), you will see it defined (2.) as "A short novel." In fact, the term "short novel" is much more commonly used than "novella". --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA