Missing Mothers of the Afropocene: Parable of the Sower and Octavia Butler's Legacy in An Unkindness of Ghosts.

A literary criticism is presented of the science fiction novels "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon and "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" by Octavia E. Butler. Topics discussed include Solomon's response to the unfinished narrative arc in Butler's novels, the portrayal of Black mother-daughter during a climate change apocalypse in Solomon's novel, and the overrepresentation of science as Reason.