23,000 words. From the editor's introduction in Science Fantasy: "Written originally as a novel, the 'Web of the Norns' has been considerably revised and shortened to suit our particular requirements." Both published versions are of the same length, though it appears that the authors did have plans to expand the story to novel length: "This is the first half of a 60,000 word novel which, unhappily, will never be written," Harrison wrote in Bibliographia (1951-1965).