It took me about ten years of reading Science Fiction and Fantasy novels as an adult before I started to venture into the novella space. Since the short-form stories often don’t flow through traditional big publishers in the same way, most readers tend to move through the SFF genres without engaging with them much, which…
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, as you might have seen in this year's best novellas piece, is fabulous. My favorite type of novella is one that knows how to use its limited space to make a point, explore an idea, or execute a premise efficiently, smoothly, and with fabulous flair. Elder Race checks off all of…
Much like last year, we read a number of fantastic novellas that deserve a lot more attention. We didn’t want to put these great picks in our best books of 2021 and have them get lost. So instead, here is a shortlist of some of our favorite novellas of the year that we think you…
