New science fiction from award winning authors Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake! Over 100 years after the mutiny and war started by the original expedition to the planet Bonificium, a new recontact team arrives to assess the damage done. But even the Polity admits the mission to put the situation to rights is logically impossible.Field agent Rogelio finds himself drawn into the politics of the planet, even as he — against all rules and regulations — starts falling in love with one of the planet's leaders … When the new star appears in the heavens, the people of Bonificium know it means that the Sky People have returned. Armsmistress Melia is determined that her people will make the new visitors from the stars their own — and she decides that the starman Rogelio is the key … Praise for the fiction of Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The best science fiction stories are a blend of both fascinating concepts and interesting characters and their interactions. 'The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars' is one of the better such offerings this reader has come across in a while." — From a review by Eugie Foster in Tangent OnlineIncluding a free bonus short story, "The World Always Begins in Light," the prequel to Second Contact!