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В этом сборнике читатель найдет рассказы фантастов разных стран, посвященные самым необыкновенным фантастическим изобретениям. С их помощью герои добиваются бессмертия, приобретают способность проходеть сквозь скалы, преодолевают силу тяжести, решают задачи, которые стоят перед современной наукой.

Never before published in its entirety in the United States, is John Sladek’s masterpiece.

Roderick is a robot who learns. He begins life looking like a toy tank, thinking like a child, and knowing nothing about human ways. But as he will discover, growing up and becoming fully human is no easy task in a world where many people seem to have little trouble giving up their humanity.

The Complete RoderickThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

John Sladek was one of SF’s premier satirists, and is his masterpiece—a dark comedy of artificial intelligence, previously split into (1980) and (1983).

Roderick is an experimental robot, a well-meaning innocent who grows up and learns what it is to be human in the comic inferno of modern America. Being human isn’t much fun: bullied at school, diagnosed as mentally unstable for saying he’s a robot, forever in trouble for applying logic to religion…

Being a robot is tough: a sinister government agency is determined to destroy all AI “Entities”. Luckily their agents are hilariously inept—one assassin lying in wait for Roderick gets mugged for his laser-aimed sniper rifle.

Like Voltaire’s Candide, Roderick moves wide-eyed through a world of insane commercialism: (Danton’s Doggie Dinette, the posh canine restaurant), fly-by-night religions (the Church of Christ Symmetrical), non-art (identical purple squares, meaningless when painted by Roderick, are praised as cutting-edge art), junk science (research into psychic pigeons is faked but generates a bestseller anyway) and—everywhere—people whose fads and tics and rigid prejudices make them more programmed, less truly human, than Roderick himself.

This book is painfully funny, sprinkled with wild ideas and nifty one-liners: a surreal musical called ; marketing a dull book on fishing as ; the lady founder of Machine Lib, dubbed the Joan of Arc-welding; buying your jeans at Denim Iniquity… Beneath the dazzle, there’s some seriously comic discussion of artificial intelligence and why it fascinates us.

Applause to Gollancz SF Masterworks for producing the first one-volume edition of this major SF satire.

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Classico romanzo d’automazione, ma anche di indiavolato divertimento, ha considerato John Sladek fra i grandi della fantascienza e la sua pubblicazione in questa collana non poteva mancare. Molte volte la SF si è occupata di macchine, ma mai con il vigore e l’astuzia di questo grande libro: infatti, che cosa accadrebbe se un giorno venisse inventata la macchina capace di figliare? Un interrogativo che quando il romanzo fu scritto sembrava del tutto utopico e futuribile, ma che oggi, in tempi di robot industriali, ha assunto un nuovo, sinistro colorito senza perdere nulla dell’originario divertimento. Se le macchine di tutto il mondo trovassero davvero il sistema di riprodursi da sole, qualcuno, sulla Terra, sarebbe di troppo…

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