and other strange growths
by Brian W. Aldiss
- Author(s)
- Brian W. Aldiss
- Publication, year
- London : Faber and Faber, 1967
- Scope
- 232 Pages, 19 cm.
- ISBN
- -
"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, to mark the centenary of H. G. Wells's birth. Gregory Rolles, a young man in his early twenties belongs to a class where he doesn’t work. He busies himself by writing letters to famous people and journals. He wants to author a book, The Socialist Naturalist. The story begins when Gregory and his friend Bruce Fox see a meteor streak across the sky looking like it might have landed somewhere out of town. It takes the characters a very long time to theorize why unnatural events are happening in their lives. They keep wanting to explain the unknown in terms they do know, thus unseeing what should be seen.
- Person as subject
- Ana María Gómez López
- Keywords
- science fiction , verbeelding / imagination
- Stroom project
- ⌀ [dia]
- Location
- Cabinet 3 - 4: Kunstenaars / Artists
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