For Love of Mother Not is the first book in a long series about a young empath coming of age and discovering himself.
In For Love of Mother Not Alan Dean Foster paints a rich future sci-fi world in which aliens and humans both live. He reveals this future universe and its intricacies to us while all the while keeping the reader riveted with plenty of action and mystery.
It's impossible not to root for Alan Dean Foster's downtrodden hero, Flynx, and his symbiote Pip.