| The Saliva Tree | |
|---|---|
 Cover by Bert Tanner | |
| Author | Brian Aldiss |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novella |
| Published in | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Publication type | Periodical |
| Media type | Magazine |
| Awards | Nebula Award for Best Novella (1966) |
| Publication date | September 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 ).
