War Slut Paperback – 18 Sep 2006

I was first recommended this author's work when Amazon's clever recommendation software learned that I'd bought or owned work by Maxx Barry, Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis. As the cheapest of his works on offer, I decided to buy it, and I haven't been disappointed.More like a long short story in book form than a lengthy novel, War Slut is perfect reading for the Fight Club generation, questioning the wisdom of war leaders and examining the human need to sleep with someone - or sometimes, something. Following a tiny company of soldiers who were drafted into the military along with most of Earth's population, War Slut is a fantastical tale that blends sci-fi and horror into a new form of twisted fiction.Absolutely awesome.

Great story the whole world is in the army fighting a war from birth and they have genetically created robots for sex! I can't say more you need to read it!!

This is another excellent novella from Mellick that can be read in 1 sitting. When everyone has been drafted who is there left to fight. Join a small group of soldiers who have been posted to look for the last of the draft dodgers when things start to go very wrong. If you have never read a bizarro book before i highly recommend Mellick to get you hooked.

War Sl*tWAR Sl*t begins with a preface letting the reader know that Carlton Mellick III doesn't intend for this to be an accurate military story. Then he begins his story.A love story. I know, a love story titled "WAR Sl*t"? Well, Carlton Mellick juxtaposes these two things (love and war) over one another very nicely, and adds a heap of weird things into the mix for extra flavour.CMIII asks, what is it that makes a relationship? Is a relationship something we create in our own image? is it possible to base a healthy relationship solely on physical attributes? what is it that drives us to put ourselves in extreme environments in order that we maintain a certain way of being? Do we remain human if we cease to be true to ourselves, abandon what we truly love and chase a simulacrum of it instead? What do we surrender of ourselves that we might be able to go on living, trying to be comfortable in a world that is completely alien to how we naturally are? and obviously, the perennial question that has plagued mankind since war began: Who would I choose to have sex with if I had a war Sl*t that could look like anybody in the world?I really enjoyed this book and thoroughly recommend it to any person even remotely interested in human relationships and what it means to be human.Bizarre characters and weaponry, a brilliant plot, and a poignant message.Not bad for a book titled "War Sl*t".

"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...

Carlton Mellick III's War Slut is a high paced, thought provoking mockery of the military industry. Readable in just one sitting, it exemplifies Mellick's tight, action packed signature writing style.The story centres around a group of soldiers who have been given the mission to find and kill the last of the draft dodgers. The only problem is the group's leader's have stopped giving orders and their subordinates must now think for themselves, leading to deadly consequences...As expected from any book by Carlton Mellick (with the exception of The Faggiest Vampire) it exceeds your GDA of violence, gore, kinky sex and out-and-out weirdness, making for one mind-bending military-genre parody.Whilst providing an engaging, fun story, War Slut also contains Mellick's sublime delivery of subtle social commentary; in this instance highlighting the terrifying susceptibility of a military-dependant society to brainwashing.This book is short enough to get new readers hooked, whilst giving veteran Mellick addicts a good fix of Bizarro fun.

like an episode of the twilight zone with sex and gore thrown inthe war is over or is it? a platoon is stationed in the middle of a snowy landscape and along with the sex slut, kind of cyborg shape shifter may have been attacked by the enemydon't want to give anything away but it's a great fun readthank you mr mellick

This is more of a pamphlet than a book; the story is less than 70 pages of large typeset. The general oddness lend some interest and parts rose above the general shallowness of the (very) short story but none of the concepts were explored in any depth and overall it is a poor effort. Really should be sold as part of an anthology rather than on it's own, charging anymore than a couple of quid for it is outrageous.