Father Al's Birthday Milestone
T.H. Pine
Publisher: La Maison Publishing, Inc.
Summary
In Father Al Celebrates a Birthday Milestone, we again meet Father Alvord Prebla, currently living on the now nearly completely terraformed colony of Mars with his Martite wife, Felikiata. He now heads an unclothed order, a ministry to the New Adamite Liliths and other orphans on Mars.He’s about to celebrate the one-hundred-twenty-fifth anniversary of his birth, but looks more like thirty, all due to an amazing symbiont named Sen. At his birthday celebration, he meets many friends, all alive due to his initial involvement with Sen, who helped pioneer the new science of human/AI symbionts. With them, he reminisces about the past.Two of the guests, Sellica, one of Father Al’s dearest friends, and her daughter Salanca have stories of their own … journeys into the depths of depravity that occurred because of the illicit gifts of black market symbionts. We also follow the lives of Father Al’s adopted daughter Orinta and granddaughter, Hagar, as well as Father Al and Fel’s son, Martan.This second novel in the far-reaching series is about relationships, both good and bad, and how humanity deals with the gift of symbionts, now available to a larger and larger cross-section of recipients. How this works out, both good and bad, is central to the plot of Father Al Celebrates a Birthday Milestone, Book II of the trilogy, Father Al’s Voyage of Discovery.