Usually a pretty good criteria is that light novels tend to have artwork. From the previews, this does not appear to have any. Also, the Wikipedia page for the publisher makes no mention of light novels. It seems like they are just a publisher with a focus on sci-fi and mystery novels.
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They have quite a bit more than that on their website (JP Wikipedia also shows many more imprints), including a few titles with pretty light novel-esque covers, for example in their fantasy section. Ex:
That said those do have pictures, and seem to be in the minority. This seems to be a short story collection (something which Natively could really use a separate category for, imo) rather than a novel. So it does seem off-category. (I’m neutral wrt whether to make an exception for it)
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That’s a spinoff series of 転生令嬢と数奇な人生を, which is also a light novel series.
I assume she isn’t a 令嬢 anymore by the end of the original series?
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These are both good points, and have me leaning towards not accepting it as a light novel. 
It’s a shame, though; I don’t know if this meets any other club criteria at the moment.
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Yes, I also think that the problem is not that the proposed book is Sci-Fi, as this club once started with a Sci-Fi-ish light novel, Sci-Fi as there were hyper space gates to the other world. The problem is that it is no light novel, as it is no novel, “just“ a collection of short stories.
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