query: What is the longest novel ever written?
passage: List of longest novels
This is a list of the longest novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. The longest novel is Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, originally published (1649–54) in ten parts, each part in three volumes. Artamène is generally attributed to Madeleine de Scudéry.[1]
passage: Half-Breed (short story)
"Half-Breed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the February 1940 issue of "Astonishing Stories" and reprinted in the 1972 collection "The Early Asimov". It was the fifteenth story written by Asimov, and the fourth to be published. At 9000 words, it was his longest published story to date.