Roderick, Or the Education of a Young Machine

'''Sladek, John [T]. Roderick, Or the Education of a Young Machine.''' 1980. New York: Timescape-Pocket, 1982. Roderick at Random or Further Education of a Young Machine. London: Granada, 1983. Roderick's Progress. New York: Timescape-Pocket, 1983.

Roderick is a computer program born of an embezzling scheme, "placed in a tank-like body," and raised by crazed humans (Lawrence I. Charters, rev. of earliest volume, SF&FBR #4 [May 1982]). In Roderick at Random, the story takes Roderick to college. Series called by Brian Stableford, "a classic of contemporary literature" (rev. SF&FBR #14 [May 1983]: 44-5). First two books rev. Cherry Wilder, Foundation #29 (Nov. 1983): 88-90.