[.ca] War Slut (ISBN 1933929537)

The War of the Future...:
"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...