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When you find time, could you add the following?

Marissa Meyer: Fairest - a novella in The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5 in the series

Maggie Stiefvater: The Raven King - book 4 in The Raven Cycle series

And maybe this one, although the author isn't in the database yet.

Edith Pattou: East - standalone

Thanks in advance for adding all the books we're asking for. The work is really appreciated!

This is in. 

It actually became the first chapter in one of the Retrieval Artist Anniversary Day novels (but I forget which one). So I hope you won't be disappointed if you've already read it.

Most of the Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories which have been entered into the database thus far has fallen into at least one of the following categories (and a lot of it has fallen into two of them):

1) nominated for, or won, an Award 
2) available to read for free online
3) available to purchase in standalone form (rather than only as part of a magazine or anthology)

I've been holding off on "Citadel" (I love Aliette de Bodard's stories, too) because I was thinking that it would be an Asimov's or Nebula finalist and thus be made available to read for free. It didn't make the Asimovs and it doesn't look like a Nebula is going to happen, either, and it's still not available except by purchasing a back copy of Asimov's.

The Admin/site owner will probably want to weigh in here, but his direction to the Uber Users has been that the priority is for novels and not short fiction. Given that there are around 50 novels and 18 authors which still need to be entered to get the Prix Aurora added to the Awards database, at least 100 novels and related genre works from 2015 alone (and probably close to as many authors just for those books) which still need to be entered into the database (plus uncounted multitudes from previous years and a huge pile of stuff to get the Campbell Award for Best New Writer into the database), it's kind of hard to justify entering a lot of shorter fiction which doesn't fall into at least one of the above categories. Just entering the shorter fiction which has been nominated for the Hugos and the Nebulas is a gargantuan task which I've been chipping away at, but which is probably a couple of years from being finished.

Eventually, the site will probably be given functionality to handle shorter fiction by category, separate from novels, for reading lists and the various totals. But that hasn't happened yet, and probably won't for a while.

I apologize if this explanation is disappointing -- but I do understand the Admin's thinking that there is a danger in having the site try to go off in too many different directions at once and not finishing or doing any of those things well.

I'm keeping an eye on "Citadel", and if it becomes available to read online, or as a standalone novella for sale, I'll get it entered into the database tout suite.