Name: The Killing Star
ISBN: 9780380770267

Charles Pellegrino

George Zebrowski

The only survivors from Earth after an alien species attempts to wipe out all life, a small group of people frantically studies the destructor's technology in the hopes of escaping the same fate. Reprint.

The Killing Star

Dylan Garrett

The Killing Star was interesting as an apparent precursor to The Three Body Problem. I'm not sure where the "dark forest" concept originated, but I'd be surprised if this book didn't influence Liu Cixin, at least indirectly somehow.
The main issue I had with the book was how it bounced around between similar characters in very similar situations without giving the reader much to get their bearings. Everyone is in a small enclosed vehicle/ship/base using the author's 1995 idea of an iPad to take readings on what was going on outside. The setting similarities were clearly intentional in some cases, but it usually just led to confusion about who I was reading about and what dangerous situation these particular characters were in.