标题: 《 Target Generation 》作者： - Clifford D Simak【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-25 11:24 标题: 《 Target Generation 》作者： - Clifford D Simak【EPUB】 TARGET GENERATION CLIFFORD D SIMAK THERE had been silence—for many generations. Then the silence ended. The Mutter came at "dawn." The Folk awoke, crouching in their beds, listening to the Mutter. For had it not been spoken that one day would come the Mutter? And that the Mutter would be the beginning of the End? Jon Hoff awoke, and Mary Hoff, his wife. They were the only two within their cubicle, for they had no children. They were not yet allowed a child. Before they could have a child, before there would be room for it, the elderly Joshua must die, and knowing this they had waited for his death, guilty at their unspoken prayer that he soon must die—willing him to die so they might have a child. The Mutter came and ran throughout the Ship. Then the bed in which Jon and Mary crouched spun upward from the floor and crashed against the wall, pinning them against the humming