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Originally Posted by rdjack21
I want to say 10-15 years ago while in the grocery store I picked up this really cool first encounter book. I have not seen this book since anywhere nor do I remember the title or who the Author was. But I loved the concept of this book so much I would like to read it again.
The Story:
The book starts out with a NASA Scientist asking the leading SciFi Authors why they thought SETI never found or heard any thing. I don't remember who all the Authors were but one of them was Asimov. Any ways the theory they came up with was that if you could be heard you could be found. With this information and a reasonable tech level you could take out your neighbor with a kinetic energy weapon. So the question became could you as a race accept the possibility that your neighbor could make you extent. At this point all the messages got quite and the NASA Scientist aren't we pretty much telling everyone where we are and Oh my God what are they seeing!
The first part of the book deals with this question from the Alain's perspective where they are trying to determine the possibility of those crazy humans of attacking them and the consequence of them striking first. For instance one down side is that they must ensure that they get all of us because if any of us survive we will know where they are and will want revenge.
The rest of the book deals with the actual attack.
Over all it was a really cool book and I really liked the premise and would really love to read it again.
Thanks
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THE KILLING STAR by Charles Pelligrino and George Zebrowski