Carlton Mellick III

Carlton Mellick III is an American author, born in 1977 and based in Portland, Oregon. He is best known as one of the leading authors of the Bizarro movement in underground literature, with novels such as Satan Burger, Sea of the Patchwork Cats, and The Morbidly Obese Ninja. Mellick's books mix schlock science fiction and horror with postmodern literary play, setting surreal versions of earth in contemporary society and imagined futures. The satire often turns on social absurdities.