Book Reviews by Gary McGath

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Reviews are added periodically to this list.

Some of the reviews listed here are also indexed on the NESFA book review page, along with many other science fiction reviews by various writers.

Latest

Mira Grant: Deadline

Fiction

Eric Flint: 1812: The Rivers of War
Mira Grant: Deadline
J. Neil Schulman: Escape from Heaven
Mira Grant: Feed
Robert A. Heinlein: For Us, the Living
Walter Moers: Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher
L. Neil Smith: Forge of the Elders
Terry Pratchett: Making Money
Terry Pratchett: Night Watch
Andreas Eschbach: Quest
Terry Pratchett: Small Gods
Terry Pratchett: Unseen Academicals
Jules Verne: Le Volcan d'Or

Philosophy

Bart Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus
Sam Harris: The End of Faith
Christopher Hitchens: God Is Not Great
Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi: What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

Political Issues

Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre: Spychips
Paul Berman: Terror and Liberalism
Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Terry Eastland: Ending Affirmative Action
Gene Healy: The Cult of the Presidency
Robert Mayhew: Ayn Rand and Song of Russia
Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan: Rex Appeal; Steve Fiffer: Tyrannosaurus Sue
Aviel Rubin: Brave New Ballot
Jeffrey A. Schaler: Addiction Is a Choice
Shelby Steele: White Guilt

Reviews reprinted from Ergo

These are some reviews which I wrote for Ergo in the 1970's and 1980's. While I would have written these reviews differently today, I'm happy to say that they still represent my views for the most part and don't feel like the work of a stranger.

Nathan Glazer: Affirmative Discrimination (1979)
James Hogan: Code of the Lifemaker (1983)
Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston: Star Trek Lives! (1975)

Reviews prior to 2000

Some of these books are out of print, but the reviews may still be of interest as reference material.

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