Not Rated Too Long to Qualify as Short Fiction
(SFF) A building has collapsed, and the King and his closest advisor (a talking cat), investigate. The chief architect realizes something is profoundly wrong, and not just with the building. (50,491 words; Time: 2h:48m)
At 50,491 words, this book is a novel, not a novella, even under the new rules for the Hugo Awards.
