The Sky Suspended — Laura Montgomery

A novel of asteroids past, crowds, lawyers and a starship.

It is the 22nd century and a generation has passed since asteroid scares led to the creation and launch of a single interstellar starship. Calvin Tondini is a new attorney with the government, and has no intention of watching from the sidelines as the starship's return and its discovery of an Earth-like planet sets the bureaucratic response in motion. Can someone who has no business in the matter unearth the secrets that will allow the rest of humanity to reach the stars?