Title: Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine
Title Record # 1287
Author: John Sladek
Date: 1980-11-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Roderick
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: artificial intelligence (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), fantasy (1) Add Tags
Author: John Sladek
Date: 1980-11-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Roderick
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
US Timescape/Pocket version is about 2/3 of original UK version.
US Carroll & Graf edition is complete
Synopsis: From the back cover of the Timescape paperback: "In a small, top-secret laboratory at the University of Minnetonka... A NASA-funded project has created... Roderick the Robot - brainchild of Dr. Lee Wong - a real, complete, functioning, artificial boy.
Now after long, lonely hours in front of the television, Roderick has learned English, and the ways of the world. Now he is ready to meet Ma and Pa Wood, his elderly adoptive parents - and embark on the kind of adventures that would make any red-blooded kid sit up and take notice.
Soon Roderick is warming a barstool of Larry's Grill, playing doctor with a precocious nymphet, getting beaten up in the schoolyard, and banished to Holy Trinity to learn catechism - and some manners...
But what more can a blue-eye space robot expect in a world where nothing makes any more sense than prime time TV!"
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 13 | 1983 Locus | Best SF Novel |
| Nomination | 1983 Ditmar | Best International Long Fiction |
| Nomination | 1983 Dick | Philip K. Dick Award |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine | 1980-11-00 | John Sladek | Granada | 0-246-11437-1 | £6.95?£: UK pound |
348 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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| Roderick | 1982-00-00 | John Sladek | Granada | 0-586-04539-2 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
348 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Ray Winder | |
| Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine | 1982-04-00 | John Sladek | Timescape / Pocket Books | 0-671-44886-2 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
255+ [1] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Carl Lundgren | |
| Roderick oder Die Erziehung einer Maschine | 1982-08-00 | John Sladek | Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy #5750) | 3-426-05750-6 | DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
304 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Stanislaw Fernandes | |
| Roderick | 1987-07-00 | John Sladek | Carroll & Graf | 0-88184-325-3 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
348 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Daniel R. Horne | |
| Roderick | 1989-00-00 | John Sladek | Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #386) | 361 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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| Robot Roderick: Kindheit und Jugend einer begabten Maschine | 1992-04-00 | John Sladek | Heyne (Bibliothek der Science Fiction Literatur #86) | 3-453-05419-9 | DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
797 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
omni | Giuseppe Mangoni | |
| The Complete Roderick | 2001-10-00 | John Sladek | Gollancz / Orion (Millennium / Gollancz SF Masterworks #45) | 1-85798-340-8 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
611 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
omni | Chris Moore | |
| The Complete Roderick | 2004-10-00 | John Sladek | The Overlook Press (Overlook SF & F Classics) | 1-58567-587-3 | $17.95?$: US dollar |
611 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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| Roderick | 2011-09-29 | John Sladek | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-11068-7 | £4.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
| Roderick | unpublished | John Sladek | Gollancz | 0-575-07266-0 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
352 | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
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Reviews
- Review by Ian Watson (1981) in Vector 101
- Review by David Pringle (1982) in Interzone, #1 Spring 1982
- Review by Faren Miller (1982) in Locus, #255 April 1982
- Review by Lawrence I. Charters (1982) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #4, May 1982
- Review by Thomas M. Disch (1982) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1982
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1982) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1982
- Review by Baird Searles (1982) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1982
- Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1982) in Whispers, August 1982 , reprinted in:
- [as by Chris Henderson] Whispers , August 1982 (1982)
- Review by Joseph Nicholas (1982) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 6, Number 1
- Review by Debbie Notkin (1982) in Rigel Science Fiction, #5 Fall 1982
- Review [German] by Karl Michael Armer (1982) in Science Fiction Times, November 1982
- Review [German] by Ulrich Kiesow (1982) in Science Fiction Jahrbuch 1983
- Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
- Review by Cherry Wilder (1983) in Foundation, #29 November 1983
- Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985)
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1986)
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1987)
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1997)
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (2014)
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1988) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1988