Roderick - Revision history

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← Older revision		Revision as of 19:05, 25 January 2025
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−	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were written as a single work but published in two parts in 1980 and 1983, and finally reissued together in 2001; see [[/Editions/]]. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).	+	__NOTOC__
		+	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were written as a single work but published in two parts in 1980 and 1983, and finally reissued together in 2001; see '''[[/Editions/]]'''. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).

	* Part 1 (''Roderick'')		* Part 1 (''Roderick'')

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 == Other reading ==
-* [[wikipedia:Roderick (novel)|Wikipedia]]
+* {{wp|Roderick (novel)|Wikipedia}}
 * a somewhat negative but interesting [http://www.sfandfantasymasterworks.co.uk/2010/05/john-sladek-complete-roderick-1980-1983.html review] by Andrew Spong

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 * Part 1 (''Roderick'')
-** [[/Book One/]]
+** '''[[/Book One/]]'''
-** [[/Book Two/]]
+** '''[[/Book Two/]]'''
-* [[/Part 2/]] (''Roderick at Random'')
+* '''[[/Part 2/]]''' (''Roderick at Random'')
 {{SummaryWarning}}

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 ** [[/Book Two/]]
 * [[/Part 2/]] (''Roderick at Random'')
 {{SummaryWarning}}

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 * Leo Bunsky: researcher on the Roderick project, presumed dead.
 * Allbright: poet and addict, friend of Dan.
 * Professor Rogers: sociologist, committee manipulator, bad person.
 * Jane Hannah: anthropologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of mythology.

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 * a somewhat negative but interesting [http://www.sfandfantasymasterworks.co.uk/2010/05/john-sladek-complete-roderick-1980-1983.html review] by Andrew Spong
-[[Category:Roderick]]
+{{Roderick nav}}
 [[Category:John Sladek]]

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 * Leo Bunsky: researcher on the Roderick project, presumed dead.
 * Allbright: poet and addict, friend of Dan.
-* Dora: student, friend of Allbright.
+* Dora: student, friend/girlfriend of Allbright.
 * Helen Boag: Dean of Persons at Minnetonka University.
 * Professor Rogers: sociologist, committee manipulator, bad person.
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 * Mister O'Smith: bionic cowboy assassin.
 * Ma and Pa Wood: elderly meta-hippies in Nebraska, sometime performance artists and inventors.
-* Indica Dinks: Machine Liberation activist, former dancer, Ben's ex-wife.
+* Indica Dinks: former dancer, Ben's ex-wife, Machine Liberation activist.
-* Hank Dinks: Indica's second husband, friend of Allbright, freelance journalist.
+* Hank Dinks: Indica's second husband, friend of Allbright, freelance journalist, neo-Luddite.
 * Mr. Kratt: robotics dabbler, "fun food" entrepreneur, maker of unsafe products.
-* Luke Draeger: retired astronaut, Skid Row factory worker.
+* Luke Draeger: retired astronaut, Skid Row factory worker, joiner of religious groups.
 == Other reading ==

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−	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were written as a single work but published ~~separately as~~ two ~~books~~ in 1980 and 1983, and finally reissued together in 2001; see [[/Editions/]]. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).	+	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were written as a single work but published in two parts in 1980 and 1983, and finally reissued together in 2001; see [[/Editions/]]. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).

	* Part 1 (''Roderick'')		* Part 1 (''Roderick'')

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−	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were ~~first~~ published separately as two books in 1980 and 1983, and ~~were only~~ reissued together ~~(as Sladek originally intended)~~ in 2001; see [[/Editions/]]. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).	+	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were written as a single work but published separately as two books in 1980 and 1983, and finally reissued together in 2001; see [[/Editions/]]. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).

	* Part 1 (''Roderick'')		* Part 1 (''Roderick'')

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:11, 9 August 2016
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−	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were first published separately as ~~''Roderick, or the Education of a Young Machine'' (~~1980) and ~~''Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine'' (~~1983), ~~before being~~ reissued together (as Sladek originally intended) ~~as ''The Complete Roderick'' (~~2001). This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).	+	These are notes for the '''''Roderick''''' novels by [[John Sladek]]. Telling the picaresque story of a well-meaning but naive artificial intelligence finding his way in a ridiculous human world, they were first published separately as two books in 1980 and 1983, and were only reissued together (as Sladek originally intended) in 2001; see [[/Editions/]]. This was the first novel-length science fiction he had written since ''The Muller-Fökker Effect'' (1970).

	* Part 1 (''Roderick'')		* Part 1 (''Roderick'')