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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).
The saliva tree, and other growths. by. Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-2017. Publication date. 1979. Topics. Short stories, English, Short stories in English, 1900- Texts. Publisher.
18 ago 2019 · “The Saliva Tree” is logical, realistic, mundane, yet twisted by a Victorian kind of fantastic. The story is set after The Time Machine but before The War of the Worlds. Aldiss alludes to The Food of the Gods, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Invisible Man — among other works of Wells.
This book consists of Brian Aldiss’s Nebula Award winning novella The Saliva Tree bound back to back with Robert Silverberg’s Nebula Award Winning novella Born With the Dead. It is the first solo publication of the Aldiss story – outside the collection of the same title – since its original magazine appearance in the mid-1960s.
An alien spaceship lands in a pond on an English farm and invisible aliens spread fertilizer (the saliva of the title) over the nearby land, prompting a bloom of enormous but corrupt plants, vegetables and animals.
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Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss wrote his wonderfully strange and gripping novella “The Saliva Tree,” as a tribute to H. G. Wells, the immortal author of The Time Machine and War of the...
Saliva Tree - 4/5 - Nineteenth century bucolic England is visited by meteorites and an innocuous pond-deep vessel which houses two invisible beings. The electrify-owning farmer, his fair maiden daughter and her suitor have differing opinions as the nature of the farm's recent mysteries and the nature of the beasts. 81 pages
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