The Saliva Tree

Nebula Award winning novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1965. The story can also be found in the anthologies Nebula Award Stories 1965, edited by Damon Knight, and The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor. It is half of Tor Double #3: Born With The Dead/The Saliva Tree (1988, with Robert Silverberg) and is included in the collections The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths (1966) and Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1988).