Category talk:Novellas
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Why have this category?
BattleTech, by and larger, had two kinds of fiction: 'Long fiction' (novels) and 'short fiction' (everything else, from short stories to novellas). This is even explained in the respective categories. The main reason behind this, I think, was BattleCorps' initial limitation to short fiction, which they apparently circumvented by publishing novels as multi-part stories, before they published full novels straight later on.
I don't think a category 'Novella' is useful to have, especially given that the boundaries between short stories, novellettes, novellas and novels are only very loosely defined and have little if any meaning beyond being an inaccurate measure of approximate word count. Even now with only two categories in place there is overlap, i.e. fiction that is sorted into both categories. Why would we want to sort out novellas into their own category? Frabby (talk) 16:43, 29 July 2020 (EDT)