Roderick at Random - Softcover

Sladek, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881843415 ISBN 13: 9780881843415

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1988

Synopsis

SCIENCE FICTION-RODERICK IS OFF AGAIN AT RANDOM-ON HIS AMAZING AND WORLDLY ADVENTURES.WHO CAN FORGET RODERICK?THAT SHY,SENSITIVE ROBOT ON THE RUN IN THE U.S.A.OF THE VERY NEAR FUTURE-THAT LEARNING MACHINE GROWING UP IN A COMPLEX TECHNOLOGICAL AGE,SURMOUNTING THE EMBARRESMENT OF ADOLESCENCE AND WONDERING-INCREASINGLY-HOW TO ADAPT TO THE UNIFORM LIFESTYLES OF MODERN AMERICA.AND IN HIS CONTINUING EFFORT TO FIT IN AND BE HUMANISED HE ENCOUNTERS YET ANOTHER CRAZY ROUND OF AD MEN,CON MEN;ANOTHER CRAZY ROUND OF LUNATIC GAME SHOWS,MANIACAL RELIGOUS CULTS,CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND PILL POPPING PEOPLE ALL HOOKED ON PRIME TIME TV.ONCE AGAIN AND INEVITABLY-RODERICK WONDERS WETHER HIS ACQUIRED INTELLIGENCE HASN'T AFTER ALL,TAUGHT HIM TO BECOME MORE MACHINE LIKE.

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About the Author

John Sladek (1937 - 2000) John Sladek was born in Iowa in 1937 but moved to the UK in 1966, where he became involved with the British New Wave movement, centred on Michael Moorcock's groundbreaking New Worlds magazine. Sladek began writing SF with 'The Happy Breed', which appeared in Harlan Ellison's seminal anthology Dangerous Visions in 1967, and is now recognized as one of SF's most brilliant satirists. His novels and short story collections include The Muller Fokker Effect, Roderick and Tik Tok, for which he won a BSFA Award. He returned to the United States in 1986, and died there in March 2000.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881843415
• ISBN 13: 9780881843415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317