Parable of the Sower | Critical Overview
Although Four Walls Eight Windows, the original publishers of Parable of the Sower, tried to present the book as similar to the fiction of other African American writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade Bambara, reviewers seemed still to regard it as science fiction. This did not prevent the novel from receiving high praise. For Faren Miller, in Locus, it “presents what is simply the most emotionally and intellectually appealing religion I’ve encountered in nearly four decades of reading sf.” Miller commented on the grim nature of the world depicted and the religious...
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