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 U.S. science fiction writers.''Sladek, John is the author of 'Complete Roderick', published 2004 under ISBN 9781585675876 and ISBN 1585675873.