How 'speculative' will your new paper be Garry? If it is of interest to you I can send you a free pdf of my book (or my draft version of the sequel, The Siren of Tabby's Star: the Elsie Key. I know stellar lifting is your current favourite, but my work could be of help, let me know if there's room for asteroid mining in you paper or if there'a anything you might want to reference in the hypothesis...
You need to put 'Kindle' in, but here's the Amazon link