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…
You may have noticed we didn’t include any novellas on our Best of 2020 list. As we combed through the year’s many magnificent reads, we struggled to balance the short, punchy narratives of 2020’s various novellas with the sweeping stories of the novels that made our top rankings. To give credit where it is so…
This is a weird novella, and I am here for it. The Seventh Perfection, by Daniel Polansky, sits somewhere between a full novel and a novella at just under 200 pages. But what a 200 pages it is. The story’s main gimmick is it is told completely from a second-person point of view, and it…
