Product Description

In a future where everyone in the world has been drafted into the military, there is only one enemy left to fight . . . ourselves.

Five exhausted soldiers are sitting in the middle of a frozen Arctic wasteland, waiting for something to happen. They don't know why they are there or what they are supposed to be doing. Their superior officers have stopped giving them orders, their food supply is running low, and they are unsure whether or not their enemy actually exists at all. Once they lose their war slut (a transmorphing sex cyborg), the soldiers leave the safety of their camp in order to get it back. Only what they find out in the dark icy landscape is something far beyond what they ever could have imagined.

Part 1984, part Waiting for Godot, and part action horror video game adaptation of John Carpenter's The Thing, WAR SLUT is a fast-paced dystopian tale of the dark and the absurd.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132654 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781933929538
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From the Inside Flap
"Stretching the fabric of sanity, Carlton Mellick III's War Slut crafts a haunting vision into the future of military duty, political interest, and religious fanaticism." - THE DREAM PEOPLE

Customer Reviews

The Futility of War, Freedom, and Love
I recently read two CM3 books back to back, Sea of Patchwork Cats and War Slut. Both had similar themes, the dominant being futility. In Patchwork, there was a futility in existence after everyone else on the planet committed suicide, while in War Slut the futility was in war and the reality of freedom. Both exhibited the futility of love. Overall, I found War Slut to be the better of the two.

It tells the story of a regiment of soldiers being repositioned from Northern Africa to the Arctic to fight one of the last remaining battalions of draft dodgers, those who would dare go against the government policy that everyone - man, woman, and child - join the military. There is often a knee-jerk reaction to anything involving military within our present political and military climate and CM3 is quick to point that War Slut is a work of absurdism not reality. But underlying the absurd is a sly comment on the upper echelon at work in our country today.

In typical Mellick fashion, the ending wraps everything up in a pretty Seinfeld-ian bow. Is freedom worth everything you have to give up to attain it? CM3 will make you wonder.

Will the War of the Future Ever End?
"In a future where everyone in the world has been drafted into the military, there is only one enemy left to fight... ourselves."

Mellick is back with an explosive new novella about the military of the future. The war is over, but there is nothing left to do but fight. With this in mind, a group of military leaders send a small band of soldiers to the artic, where "draft dodgers" are believed to be hiding. Since there is no enemy army left to fight, the military must now focus on finding and killing draft dodgers. The soldiers find a city of ice occupied by fabric people filled with stuffing. What happens next is something they never bargained for. Can the soldiers escape alive? What will happen when they do? Who are these strange cloth people?

This is a very entertaining book. Though it deals with an army, it does not get bogged down in military jargon and detailed military theory. By Mellick's admission at the start of the book, he knows nothing about the military. Instead, he says the book was written from the point of view of a nine-year-old playing with Gi-Joes on a snow day. Indeed it is. Don't miss this one, it is fast, funny, and it makes you think...

A band of soldiers take a last stand in a strange ice city
In an expedition into the frozen wastelands of the north, a tired troop of soldiers are gathered to hunt down the one remaining enemy to the all-encompassing military - Draft Dodgers. Creeping further north, they come upon what seems to be a whole city under the ice: cars and televisions, bookcases and football stadiums. Above it all are ice skyscrapers, but the only occupants are cotton stuffed mannequins with porcelain doll faces.

The group is separated by enemy fire, scattered in attempting to discover the snipers until Hugh Jake (a soldier whose eyes constantly weep and suffers from narcolepsy) realizes it's the mannequins themselves that are attacking. Is this just a strange society, or is this what Draft Dodgers have become? And what's to become of the soldiers?

Mellick is a master of the bizarre tales. This short novella is certainly odd but closer to readability for many who haven't yet sampled the truly macabre avant-punk, bizarro genre. As Mellick himself explains in his introduction, "This isn't about realism. Realism isn't my style. This is about the absurb." Enjoy!