Mothers as Main Characters In SFF — How Do I Count Them?

Francesca Annis as Jessica

Last week I posted on the character of Jessica in the Science Fiction classic, Dune, observing—among reflections on her many sterling qualities—that she is “still one of the very few…[characters I can think of in SFF ]…where being a mother is central, not peripheral, to her part in the story.”

I have by no means read all the available fiction in SFF, but I still had to put on my thinking cap. So although I am going to suggest a few more “Great Mums of SFF” now, I am...