Instruct: Given a question, retrieve passages that can help answer the question.
Query: Why are novella's not novels?
A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 17,500 and 40,000 words.
The sometimes blurry definition between a novel and a novella can create controversy, as was the case with British writer Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (2007). The author described it as a novella, but the panel for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 qualified the book as a "short novel".[9] Thus, this "novella" was shortlisted for an award for best original novel. A similar case is found with a much older work of fiction: The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London. This book, by modern standards, is short enough and straightforward enough to qualify as a novella. However, historically, it has been regarded as a novel.
The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2016 (presented in 2017), as well as the novel that won the Andre Norton Award for that year and nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor. The novels, the winning novella, and one of the novelette nominees are represented by excerpts; the non-winning pieces nominated for the Best Novel, Andre Norton Award and Best Novella are omitted.Lucy Lockley in "Booklist", while observing that the editor calls 2016 "an odd year for the Nebulas," writes "Readers will enjoy this 'odd' variety of excellence." She notes "The entries embrace a spectrum of themes, including disastrous, apocalyptic, and dystopian events; spins on mythology and folk and fairy tales; and poignant stories about family." Singled out for particular comment are the contributions by Yoachim, Krasnoff, Sandford, and Stufflebeam.
The novella is mainly set prior to the incidents in "What The Night Knows", but also bookends the novel itself. In the initial part of the novella, Alton Turner Blackwood, the antagonist of "What The Night Knows", meets a boy named Howie, and the events of this novella dovetail into the background of the main novel.
Commonly, longer novellas are referred to as novels; Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) are sometimes called novels, as are many science fiction works such as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1897) and Philip Francis Nowlan's Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928). Less often, longer works are referred to as novellas. The subjectivity of the parameters of the novella genre is indicative of its shifting and diverse nature as an art form. In her 2010 Open Letters Monthly series, "A Year With Short Novels", Ingrid Norton criticizes the tendency to make clear demarcations based purely on a book's length:
Reviewer Jacob Weisberg of "The New York Times" wrote "Wolfe is always showing us something we haven't quite noticed. But after three thick novels and a novella (surely he will never write a short story), the issue remains: Why does a writer whose ambitions are so fundamentally journalistic insist on processing his reportage into fiction? You may never put down a Tom Wolfe novel. But you never reread one, either."
Martin and Tuttle became friends in 1973, and soon decided to collaborate on a story, which became the first of the three novellas, "The Storms of Windhaven" (included in the novel as "Storms"). During the conception and writing of the story, they agreed on eventually expanding it into a fix-up novel. "The Storms of Windhaven" was originally published in the May 1975 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact". It won the 1976 Locus Award for Best Novella, and was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novella and Nebula Award for Best Novella. 
A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by American writer James Blish, first published in 1958. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion yet has a perfect, innate sense of morality, a situation which conflicts with Catholic teaching. The story was originally published as a novella in 1953, and later extended to novel-length, of which the first part is the original novella. The novel is the first part of Blish's thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy: it thus follows "Doctor Mirabilis" and both "Black Easter" and "The Day After Judgment" (two novellas that Blish viewed as together forming the third volume of the trilogy).
In literature, Norman Mailer, in his 1948 novel "The Naked and the Dead" uses it occasionally, disguised as "motherfugger", and used it in full in his 1967 novel "Why Are We in Vietnam?". It appears twice in James Purdy's 1956 novella "63: Dream Palace". In Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" the word is used by one of the soldiers in the story – leading to the novel being often challenged in libraries and schools. Vonnegut joked in a speech, published in the collection "Fates Worse Than Death", that "Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers. When it will stop no one knows."
All of the novels and four of the novellas have been released as audiobooks, with Jefferson Mays as the narrator for all novels and the novellas "The Vital Abyss" and "Strange Dogs". Erik Davies is the narrator for the novellas "The Churn" and "Gods of Risk".
Gilgamesh in the Outback is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert Silverberg, a sequel to his novel "Gilgamesh the King" as well as a story in the shared universe series "Heroes in Hell". It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986. Originally published in "Asimov's Science Fiction", it was then printed in "Rebels in Hell" before being incorporated into Silverberg's novel "To the Land of the Living". Real-life writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft feature as characters in the novella.
Castle Rock is part of Stephen King's fictional Maine topography and provides the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. Castle Rock appeared first in King's 1979 novel "The Dead Zone" and lately in the novels "Doctor Sleep" (2013) and "Revival" (2014) and the novella "Elevation" (2018). (See list of works below.) The town name is taken from the fictional mountain fort in William Golding's 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies".
This novella was written for the Kindle, and saw print in the paperback edition of the novel. It is mainly set prior to the incidents in "What The Night Knows", but also bookends the novel itself. In the initial part of the novella, Alton Turner Blackwood meets a boy named Howie, and the subsequent events of this novella dovetail into the background of the main novel, with a time lapse to the end of the novel.
At the ending of the book, there is also a brief afterword, which King wrote on January 4, 1982. In it, he explains why he had not previously submitted the novellas (each written at a different time) for publication. Early in his career, his agents and editors expressed concern that he would be "written off" as someone who only wrote horror. However, his horror novels turned out to be quite popular and made him much in demand as a novelist. Conversely, the novellas, which did not deal (primarily) with the supernatural, were very difficult to publish as there was not a mass market for "straight" fiction stories in the 25,000- to 35,000-word format. Thus, King and his editor conceived the idea of publishing the novellas together as "something different", hence the title of the book.
Eifelheim is a science fiction novel by American author Michael Flynn, published in 2006. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2007. It first appeared as a novella in 1986, which was a nominee for Best Novella Hugo Award in 1987.
A Game of Thrones is the first novel in "A Song of Ice and Fire", a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella "Blood of the Dragon", comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011 the novel became a "New York Times" Bestseller and reached #1 on the list in July 2011.
Binti is a science fiction novella written by Nnedi Okorafor. The novella was published in 2015 by Tor.com. "Binti" is the first novella in Okorafor's "Binti" novella series. 
The story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer had been the subject of a number of literary and dramatic treatments over the course of more than a century; the earliest of these having been Wilhelm Hauff's 1827 novella. The most successful literary adaptation was the Feuchtwanger novel based on a play that he had written in 1916 but subsequently withdrew. The novel was translated into English by Willa and Edwin Muir.
In the afterword to the novel, Feuchtwanger characterized Hauff's novella as 'naively anti-Semitic.'
Palmer's first novel, "Emergence", won the Compton Crook Award in 1985. It arose from a novella by the same title featured in the January 1981, issue of "Analog". This was followed by the February 1983, "Analog" publication of the "Seeking" novella, which ultimately became part two of the novel. Thereafter the "Emergence" novella appeared in an anthology called "Analog's Children of the Future". Both novellas also won reader's choice awards from "Analog". Both were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in their respective years, and the novel for Best Novel in 1985.
Marooned in Realtime is a 1986 murder mystery and time-travel science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about a small, time-displaced group of people who may be the only survivors of a technological singularity or alien invasion. It is the sequel to the novel "The Peace War" (1984) and the novella "The Ungoverned" (1985). Both novels and the novella were collected in "Across Realtime".
Carrion Comfort is a science fiction/horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1989 in hard cover by Dark Harvest and in 1990 in paperback by Warner Books. It won the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Poll Award for Best Horror Novel, and the August Derleth Award for Best Novel. It is based on a novella of the same title, published in 1983 in the magazine "Omni". The first half of the novella makes up chapter 1 of the novel, while the second half forms chapter 3.
"The Empress of Mars" is a science fiction novella published in 2003 by Kage Baker. It won the 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award and was nominated for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella as well as the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novella. The novella was expanded into a novel published in 2009.
Field of Chaos is both the name of the final published work but also the name of the 1993 novella that detailed Barbalet's experiences writing anti-viral software. The novella was written in five different accounts. The one published represents the fourth account. The novella originally started as a non-fiction novel of some length however through the explicit descriptions of a number of local hacking figures, including a young Julian Assange, the novel was re-written as a fictionalized novella to avoid any legal issues.
Hutchinson Novellas was a series of short novels published by the Hutchinson Group in the United Kingdom and Australia in the late 1980s. The books were also published as The Harper Short Novel Series in the United States.
In his essay, "Briefly, the case for the novella", Canadian author George Fetherling (who wrote the novella Tales of Two Cities) said that to reduce the novella to nothing more than a short novel is like "insisting that a pony is a baby horse".[8]