The Saliva Tree
Author | Brian Aldiss |
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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
- ^ "Nebula Award Winners: 1965 - 2011 - SFWA". SFWA. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ Knight, Damon (1966). Nebula Award Stories. New York City, NY: Pocket Books. p. 65.
- ^ "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
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