The Complete Roderick

Never before published in its entirety in the United States, The Complete Roderick is John Sladek’s masterpiece. Roderick is a robot who learns. He begins life looking like a toy tank, thinking like a child, and knowing nothing about human ways. But as he will discover, growing up and becoming fully human is no easy task in a world where many people seem to have little trouble giving up their humanity. The Complete Roderick is widely considered to be the most ambitious and genius work of a novelist described by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as “the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US science fiction writers.” Amazon Review John Sladek was one of SF’s premier satirists, and The Complete Roderick is his masterpiece—a dark comedy of artificial intelligence, previously split into Roderick (1980) and Roderick at Random (1983). Roderick is an experimental robot, a well-meaning innocent who grows up and learn...

Author: Sladek John

ISBN: 9781857983401

Year of publication: 2001

Genre: Humorous fiction

Number of pages: 666

Reading time: 11 h. 6 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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