Matt Shaw
Forfatter af Sick Bastards
Om forfatteren
Image credit: Author pic used on Facebook. The first time I saw an edited version of this pic was on the cover of my personalized horror story - part of the Literature-ly You series.
Serier
Værker af Matt Shaw
Happy Ever After Trilogy 6 eksemplarer
PETER 6 eksemplarer
9 Months - Book Three 6 eksemplarer
9 Months Book Two 6 eksemplarer
A Fresh Start (Happy Ever After, #3) 6 eksemplarer
Fertility 6 eksemplarer
All Good Things 5 eksemplarer
Once Upon a Time 5 eksemplarer
Control 5 eksemplarer
Sexual Healing 5 eksemplarer
Głód 5 eksemplarer
F*ck me? F*ck You! 5 eksemplarer
Under The Safe House & Other Stories 5 eksemplarer
The Last Stop 5 eksemplarer
2017: A Year of Horror and Pain, Part One 4 eksemplarer
Watching, Waiting 4 eksemplarer
Murder House: Who Will Survive? (The Game Book 6) 4 eksemplarer
The Suicide Club 4 eksemplarer
Dead Inside 4 eksemplarer
My Deadly Obsession 4 eksemplarer
Box 4 eksemplarer
Diary of a Dead Man: The final thoughts of Ed Boothe 4 eksemplarer
Next Door 4 eksemplarer
BIRD: The Troubled Tale of a Henpecked Husband 3 eksemplarer
The Dreams They Weave 3 eksemplarer
How I Die: A Horror Thriller 3 eksemplarer
A Christmas Cackle: F*cked-Up Festive Shorts 3 eksemplarer
The Light 3 eksemplarer
Lab Rat 3 eksemplarer
The Lonely Psychopath 3 eksemplarer
Letter From Hell 3 eksemplarer
Snuff 3 eksemplarer
The Penthouse: A Short Story of Desperation 3 eksemplarer
Chat Show 3 eksemplarer
The Girl in the Cellar: An Extreme Horror from Two of the Darkest Minds (U-TURNS Book 1) 3 eksemplarer
The Vampire's Treaty 3 eksemplarer
Woom 3 eksemplarer
F*cked-Up Shorts: Volume One 3 eksemplarer
Hell Of A Climax: Choose Your Own Extreme Horror 3 eksemplarer
Shark Week 3 eksemplarer
Matt Shaw: Open and Exposed 3 eksemplarer
The Weird: A Supernatural Horror 3 eksemplarer
Fucking Filth: An Extreme Gross out 3 eksemplarer
Tears: a collection of heartbreaking grief and loss 3 eksemplarer
All F*cked-Up Shorts: A Collection of Shorts 3 eksemplarer
Survivor's Guilt: An Extreme Horror 2 eksemplarer
Two Minds 2 eksemplarer
None More Black: 22 tales of Extreme Horror 2 eksemplarer
Trapped 2 eksemplarer
Channel X: A Streaming Service to Kill For 2 eksemplarer
The Killer Confession: A Serial Novel (Part 2) 2 eksemplarer
Her Name was Amber: An Extreme Horror Novel 2 eksemplarer
sickEST B*stards 2 eksemplarer
Loch Ness 2 eksemplarer
Home-Video 2 eksemplarer
Hell's Reveal (In Hell #2) 2 eksemplarer
POLYEMBOLOKOILAMANIA: An Extreme Horror 2 eksemplarer
Romance is Dead 2 eksemplarer
Bite-Size: A Collection of Short Stories 2 eksemplarer
Pandemic: Horrors Written In Lockdown 2 eksemplarer
Ashes 2 eksemplarer
Another Bite-Size: A Collection of Short Stories 2 eksemplarer
V: Five Books from Five Authors 2 eksemplarer
Bite-Size 1 eksemplar
The Dead Don't Knock 1 eksemplar
Join me in the club: An Extreme Horror 1 eksemplar
Sexual Tension: An Erotic Tale 1 eksemplar
The Story Collection: Volume One 1 eksemplar
Writer's Block 1 eksemplar
Some Kind of Cunt 1 eksemplar
Rotting Dead Fucks 1 eksemplar
Hub 1 eksemplar
Sick 1 eksemplar
Roe V. Wade 1 eksemplar
One Violent MotherF*cker 1 eksemplar
Influenza: Strain 'Z' 1 eksemplar
PlentyofFreaks 1 eksemplar
Not enough people die in this book 1 eksemplar
An Alternative Christmas Carol 1 eksemplar
The Ghosts of the Titanic: A supernatural horror 1 eksemplar
Bunny Kong 1 eksemplar
Immortal Shadows: A Supernatural ghost story 1 eksemplar
Patchwork 1 eksemplar
Moist Gusset 1 eksemplar
Here Comes Santa Claus: A Festive Short 1 eksemplar
Kids 1 eksemplar
Free 1 eksemplar
Halloween: A Collection of Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Obscenely Bizarre 1 eksemplar
EnSICKlopedia: A Collection of Horror from Matt Shaw (EnSICKlopedia Series) (Volume 1) (2014) 1 eksemplar
Wasting Stamps 1 eksemplar
Into the Woods 1 eksemplar
Tastes of Horror 1 eksemplar
Shorts (A Collection of Short Stories) 1 eksemplar
All The Ways I Think You're A Cunt: A Definitive Guide For All The Reasons I Think You're A Massive Cunt (2018) 1 eksemplar
Him 1 eksemplar
Glory Hole 1 eksemplar
TASTE: An Extreme Horror 1 eksemplar
Pieces: An extreme horror 1 eksemplar
Loved To Pieces 1 eksemplar
Still Fine 1 eksemplar
Behind Closed Doors 1 eksemplar
Coming Together: Two Horror Novellas 1 eksemplar
THE CRUSTED CUM SOCK 1 eksemplar
Reviews, Critics & Mystery shopping 1 eksemplar
Survivor 1 eksemplar
Room 217: A Psychological Horror 1 eksemplar
The Farm 2 1 eksemplar
sickEST B*stards: An Extreme Horror SHORT STORY 1 eksemplar
The Pack 1 eksemplar
The Den (Full Moon #2) 1 eksemplar
The Chosen Routes 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
There is no Common Knowledge data for this author yet. You can help.
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Lister
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 257
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 1,096
- Popularitet
- #23,436
- Vurdering
- 4.1
- Anmeldelser
- 81
- ISBN
- 97
- Sprog
- 1
- Udvalgt
- 3
Civil rights have fallen by the wayside as more and more of the things we count as permanent and irrevocable have been cut down. Segregation, Gay Rights, Women's Rights, all of these things are gone. The only thing that has any rights are the unborn children, but their rights come at the cost of the women who bear them.
It doesn't specify the year or exact location, but it's assumed to be in the US and a possible near-ish future.
Roe V. Wade opens on a scene showing Cate Hart, she is heavily sedated and living "her best life" (I say with irony), she is bound to a bed in an institutional room with other women, all sedated and bound to beds carefully monitored to make sure that the unborn children that they have been gestating are "kept healthy". All their bodily needs taken care of through tubes, they are constantly sedated and for the most part have nothing to do but wait until they are taken to the delivery room.
In this future, women showing any little sign of hesitancy or found "breaking the rules" are drug kicking and screaming to this institution that the outside world knows as a "birthing center" where hesitant mothers are taken and "pampered" until the day they give birth. No one asks what happens to the mothers and children afterwords, but it's not given thought. However, because this place which is subsidized by the government and makes it's employees sign NDA's no one ever talks.
This book looks upon the life of Cate and her husband Jack, who have just discovered that even after Jack's vasectomy, Cate became pregnant. They find out on Christmas and it wasn't a present either of them wanted. Cate's previous pregnancy was a very hard one and she was told she shouldn't have any more children. Work is very hard and the cost of living has soared out of control. However, because of the laws Cate and Jack must put a brave face on and make sure everyone believes that this is a wanted child. We follow the path that brought Cate to the "Birthing Center" where we first see her.
Then there is Claud who is a brand new worker at this institute which has many different rooms and wings, his job is to simply push the various gurneys with women from one area to another. It's the first week of his new job, of which he was grateful to get because jobs are very scarce in the future. Claud is finding out quickly that there are things he sees at his new job that don't sit well with him, but because he has signed an NDA and is grateful for the work, he sucks it up. He comes home to his young wife Lauren, whom he met in high school and married out of college.
Claud and Lauren hope to earn enough to buy a home and raise a family. Each day Claud becomes more and more distant as he has to choke more and more of his unease and disgust about his word down. When Lauren finds out that she is pregnant she is happy and hopeful, while Claud is secretly horrified because of the things he has seen but cannot speak of while at work.
This book scared the fuck out of me. It paints a future that I want no part of and can still see happening if things go the way they are. It isn't about pro-life, or pro-choice, it's about how far will we allow the rights of women be stripped away for the rights of an unborn child. How many other rights will be stripped away from other groups once the US gets used to the loss of reproductive rights, what rights of privacy will we become accustomed to losing?
Matt Shaw is a great horror writer, his books are thought provoking and gruesome. He often writes from multiple non-connected character's POV and has had many unique storylines. I highly recommend his work if you are interested in horror and aren't too squeamish.
However, this particular book is his take on how the future is looking. It isn't pretty.… (mere)