What if aliens really do want the best for us and our planet? Dr. Isaac St. Clair was a NASA mission specialist -- until his program was defunded, that is, and he ended up a divorced, mediocre used car salesman estranged from his family. Mark Randall is a wildly successful San Francisco magnate with all the money in the world to spend but no passion to spend it on. When Mark, in a stroke of inspiration, publishes a national ad requesting the most outrageous, world-changing proposals, Isaac wastes no time in sending his in. Project Spacemine would extract enough resources from space to...

What if aliens really do want the best for us and our planet? Dr. Isaac St. Clair was a NASA mission specialist -- until his program was defunded, that is, and he ended up a divorced, mediocre used car salesman estranged from his family. Mark Randall is a wildly successful San Francisco magnate with all the money in the world to spend but no passion to spend it on. When Mark, in a stroke of inspiration, publishes a national ad requesting the most outrageous, world-changing proposals, Isaac wastes no time in sending his in. Project Spacemine would extract enough resources from space to...