Home is the Spaceman: The Longest Short Mission

Captain Billy Enright has returned from the farthest journey ever attempted by a human being. He crossed the stars, exceeded every known limit, and arrived back on Earth eighteen months late-very much alive and entirely unapologetic. But the celebration he expects never comes. Instead, his homecoming turns formal, controlled, and quietly hostile, as authorities struggle to understand why the greatest technological success in history feels like a disciplinary problem.

As Enright explains his ...