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One novel plus one short work is enough for a series page if they meet the other criteria for a series on Goodreads.

Since the series currently consists of one novelette and one novel, what would the numbering for each one be?

If the novelette takes places after the novel, the novel would still be 1 but the novelette would be 1.5.
The novel Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang is a Chinese sci-fi novel that is being published in English for the first time in March. Some editions of the book have the parenthetical "Folding Universe" in their title, and on the publisher's website, this is listed as the title of the series this book is/will be in.
However, there is only one other work in the Folding Universe series: a novelette called "Folding Beijing" that has been published as a book in China, but in the English language has only been included in an anthology and published in the sci-fi/fantasy magazine Uncanny Magazine. The page(s) for "Folding Beijing" are a complete mess of various different editions in languages that I don't speak (there isn't even a Goodreads page for the English publication of the novelette, and I'm not sure what the policy is for creating Goodreads pages for short fiction that's been anthologized but never published as a standalone), so I'm unsure how to request that the librarians handle this. Should a series page be created for the Folding Universe and applied to both Jumpnauts and "Folding Beijing", or should it be left alone?