All science fiction writers know that reality is more fantastic than any publishable fiction. Here is one proof. The story you are about to read was tied on the first ballot with Brian W.

Aldiss’s “The Saliva Tree.” We accordingly held a second ballot. The result? Another tie.

Feeling that it would be fruitless to pursue this any further (as well as illegalthe rules made no provision for a third ballot), we gladly awarded Nebulas to both authors.

Here is another story only Zelazny could have written: an intricate and subtle marriage of reality and hallucination, delicate eroticism, horror, all turning around a brilliantly imagined new kind of psychialrist

Nebula Award, Best Novella 1965 (tied with “The Saliva Tree,” by Brian W. Aldiss)