Musings of Two Creative Minds

Just found this novelette a few weeks ago and was thrilled to get another chance to read it. I'd read it once before many years ago, but I had thought it lost and was delighted to find it was simply among my books in storage.  Mr. Campbell did a wonderful job of creating a terrifying science fiction tale of isolation and the old '10 Little Indians' theme. In the lonely antarctic, a team of researchers are slowly realizing that the remains they brought in from a wrecked spaceship they'd found in the ice is still alive. Even more alarming is the fact that it can infect and duplicate any life form, by entering the victim's body and replacing every cell in that target body, allowing it to devour and become that person/animal.  The rest of the humans must find a way to figure out who's been taken over and what this 'thing' wants, before any migrating birds come to stay at the base and move on to other parts of the world.  John Carpenter's versi...

What's in a name?  A novella or novelette is just a short story that is rather long and falls short of a full-length novel right?  Well according to my research, this is only partly correct.   Length or word count, is the key to what defines a short story, a novelette, a novella and of course a novel.  I admit I was rather surprised to see that there was a difference between a novella and a novelette.  I always presumed they were just interchangeable terms for the same kind of extremely long short story.  Why was I even interested in finding out about all this in the first place you may be asking yourself.  Well I'll tell you.  If you hadn't heard already, I decided to do a short story that involved my vampyre character Nathaniel Steward (who will be getting his first full-length novel around October 2015) and several of my characters from my first novel "The Bridge".  I did this because I was hearing from more and more readers...