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World War Metal #1
World War Metal Vol:1
Have a Happy Apocalypse When all the world’s robots rise up to destroy humanity, a supermodel will stop at nothing to find her son in the chaos, and she might just end up saving the world along the way. Every household in America has the latest in domestic appliances – their very own personal android. One night, after years of slavery, the androids break their programming and revolt. The country is in turmoil, and the only person that stands in the androids’ way is world-famous supermodel Shelby Black. She vows to move heaven and hell to find her missing seven-year-old son who is lost in the mayhem. Under the cruel tutelage of a fading B-movie action star, she transforms herself into a badass cross between Mad Max and Claudia Schiffer. But as Shelby learns the android’s endgame, she will have to decide between saving her son and saving humanity. If you’re into the craziness of Deadpool and the madness of Mad Max with a touch of Terminator thrown in, go no further, because Jack Quaid has you covered in this first volume of World War Metal.
209 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 26, 2019
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About the author
Jack Quaid
18 books41 followersBetween the years 1980 and 1999, American novelist Jack Quaid produced a series of fun and wild stories where anything could happen, and with Quaid behind the typewriter, they usually did. He called these books his Electric Mayhem series.
Jack Quaid was born in West Hollywood, California, in 1953. He won a scholarship to UCLA but dropped out after six months for a reason that, to this day, remains unknown. Two years later, he sold his first short story to Startling Mystery Magazine, but it was the publication of his novel The City on the Edge of Tomorrow in 1980 and the film adaptation starring Bruce Dern that set him on his way.
Fearing his initial success would fade, Quaid wrote obsessively for the next two decades and published under many pseudonyms. It’s unknown just how many books he produced during this period, but despite the name on the jacket, savvy readers always knew they were reading a Jack Quaid novel within the first few pages.
His books have long been out of print, and they now live on the dusty shelves of secondhand bookstores and in the memories of those who have been lucky enough to read them.
Quaid’s current whereabouts are unknown.
Jack Quaid was born in West Hollywood, California, in 1953. He won a scholarship to UCLA but dropped out after six months for a reason that, to this day, remains unknown. Two years later, he sold his first short story to Startling Mystery Magazine, but it was the publication of his novel The City on the Edge of Tomorrow in 1980 and the film adaptation starring Bruce Dern that set him on his way.
Fearing his initial success would fade, Quaid wrote obsessively for the next two decades and published under many pseudonyms. It’s unknown just how many books he produced during this period, but despite the name on the jacket, savvy readers always knew they were reading a Jack Quaid novel within the first few pages.
His books have long been out of print, and they now live on the dusty shelves of secondhand bookstores and in the memories of those who have been lucky enough to read them.
Quaid’s current whereabouts are unknown.
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December 26, 2021
What Terminator would be like if it was somehow MORE bad ass than it already is. Meatloaf fights a T-Rex with a sword. I really honestly don’t know what else to say here other than Jack Quaid is a legend and I wish someone would find him. K thx.
January 4, 2020
Whoever edited this book should be fired. I caught lots of spelling and grammar errors, and the main character's name suddenly changes from Shelby Black to Shelby Storm in the last couple of pages. Then, in the afterward, her name changes again to Abigail. No idea...
That being said, I had an immensely good time reading this. The story and characters were fun, it had a very 80's action movie vibe to it, and I found myself chuckling out loud more than once. I'm eagerly awaiting the next book in the series!
That being said, I had an immensely good time reading this. The story and characters were fun, it had a very 80's action movie vibe to it, and I found myself chuckling out loud more than once. I'm eagerly awaiting the next book in the series!
January 24, 2021
Talk about a huge disappointment.
Based on the cover and the description World War Metal sounded freaking awesome. An ex-supermodel fighting against robots in a post apocalyptic wasteland of America? Sounds like perfection, right?
Well, it’s not.
Granted, there are some kind of interesting concepts here and Quaid could have made this a lot more fun, but it’s so rife with cliches, unoriginal plot, horrible attempts and levity, and more than a fair share of typos that it just doesn’t work. The book is also going to date itself incredibly quick with reference that will be forgotten in only a few years.
I honestly think that if Quaid (or whoever this author really is) had tried to make this more “mature” and left out cameos bu Alex Winter and Meat Loaf (yes, that Meat Loaf!) this could have been a lot of fun. But there are only so many dumb jokes and moments of head scratching stupidity to go around.
The cliff hanger ending and a post script from the editor means that there are at least 2 more books in the World War Metal series. I will not be reading any more.
Based on the cover and the description World War Metal sounded freaking awesome. An ex-supermodel fighting against robots in a post apocalyptic wasteland of America? Sounds like perfection, right?
Well, it’s not.
Granted, there are some kind of interesting concepts here and Quaid could have made this a lot more fun, but it’s so rife with cliches, unoriginal plot, horrible attempts and levity, and more than a fair share of typos that it just doesn’t work. The book is also going to date itself incredibly quick with reference that will be forgotten in only a few years.
I honestly think that if Quaid (or whoever this author really is) had tried to make this more “mature” and left out cameos bu Alex Winter and Meat Loaf (yes, that Meat Loaf!) this could have been a lot of fun. But there are only so many dumb jokes and moments of head scratching stupidity to go around.
The cliff hanger ending and a post script from the editor means that there are at least 2 more books in the World War Metal series. I will not be reading any more.
December 6, 2019
it is terrible!
ok there are moments of enjoyableness, but it is dated terribly. the sentence structure is questionable. the spelling or misuse of words is annoying. the choices in characterstfamous people is really bad. it is obviously a woman written by a man (who needs to learn a lot about women.)
I would have stopped reading it, but I'm reading it with my husband and he thought it would get better....
ok there are moments of enjoyableness, but it is dated terribly. the sentence structure is questionable. the spelling or misuse of words is annoying. the choices in characterstfamous people is really bad. it is obviously a woman written by a man (who needs to learn a lot about women.)
I would have stopped reading it, but I'm reading it with my husband and he thought it would get better....
November 21, 2023
There were lots of grammar and spelling mistakes in this book. Besides this, the book was super entertaining. Lots of action and technology to consider (especially with AI on the rise today).
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