Ebook {Epub PDF} Roderick by John Sladek

Roderick is an AI, gradually learning and evolving from his original inception in a thinktank, and tanklike body, to a convincing Turing test ready android. Roderick solves one puzzle in each book and they both involve a kind of original thinking/5. John T. Sladek made his reputation in the SF community writing clever satires and parodies with the emphasis on AI and Robotics. "Roderick" is the life story of one such robot, and like Sladek's other masterful robot tale "Tik Tok", it involves a huge cast of characters and all kinds of twists and turns/5(13). Book Descriptions: Roderick by John Sladek He isn't human; but he isn't all robot either. He started life in a lab, went to Parochial School, was kidnapped by gypsies, chased by roboticidal, and incompetent, hit-men, told fortunes on the Midway, and finally fostered by an elderly couple who gave up writing science fiction when their stories came true.

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The Best of John Sladek Pocket ; Alien Accounts Granada , Wildside ; The Lunatics of Terra Gollancz , Wildside ; Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek, edited by David Langford (). Omnibus editions. The Complete Roderick comprising Roderick and Roderick at Random Gollancz SF Masterworks #45 , Overlook Press Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine is a science fiction novel by American writer John Sladek. It was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award and was followed in by Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine. Roderick is an AI, gradually learning and evolving from his original inception in a thinktank, and tanklike body, to a convincing Turing test ready android. Roderick solves one puzzle in each book and they both involve a kind of original thinking.