The Saliva Tree

The Saliva Tree

Author	Brian Aldiss
Illustrator	Bert Tanner
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Publication date	1965

The Saliva Tree is a science fiction novella by British writer Brian W. Aldiss first published in the September 1965 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . It won the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novella (which it shared with He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny in a tie). ^{[1] [2]}

The Saliva Tree was written to mark the centenary of H. G. Wells's birth, and shared the Nebula Award for the best novella of 1965. ^[3] While set in a Wellsian milieu, it contains two plot elements also found in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft: an object from space which causes crops and livestock to grow prolifically, but be unpalatable ( The Colour out of Space ) and a monster which is visible only when sprayed with an opaque powder ( The Dunwich Horror ).

References

1. "Nebula Award Winners: 1965 - 2011 - SFWA". SFWA. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
2. Knight, Damon (1966). Nebula Award Stories. New York City, NY: Pocket Books. p. 65.
3. "Aldiss, Brian W." Archived 5 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2 April 2013.

External links

• The Saliva Tree title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database