The Romantic Education of Joshua Altshuler

"A book for highly intelligent readers with soft hearts. After an asteroid ravaged the surface, humans live on Mars and the moon, on space stations, and underground on Earth. After first contact with aliens 6 light years away kills funding fot R&D, and puts humanitt's sustainability in doubt, an unemployed rocket scientist comes to a space station and finds romance and a mission of new hope.. You don't have to be Jewish to love the story, but it helps :)"