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| Isaac Asimov |
In the United States fiction is classified depending on the length of
the work, with four subsequent stages:
- Novel, any work that has more than 40,000 words.
- Novella, a work between 17,500 and 40,000 words.
- Novelette, between 7,500 and 17,500 words.
- Short Story, less than 7,500 words.
Naturally, the limits are not strict, and in practice they depend on
who classifies each book. In Spanish, however, we have fewer categories:
- Novel.
- Short novel, which applies to works of intermediate length.
- Story, with few characters and a simple plot.
