Target Generation

'''Simak, Clifford. "Target Generation."' In Strangers in the Universe''. New York: Simon, 1956. New York: Berkley, 1957. London: Faber, 1958. Wolfe gives 1953 for original date of publication. []

"TG" features a rather literal "mother" ship, serving as "a womb from which the [human] race could be renewed" (52 of Berkley edn.; quoted and discussed by Wolfe 65). Cf. V. Vinge's "Long Shot," and J. Williamson's Manseed, cited this Category.