{"product_id":"9781590209325","title":"The Complete Roderick","description":"\u003cp\u003eNever before published in its entirety in the United States, The Complete Roderick is John Sladek's masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Complete Roderick is widely considered to be the most ambitious and genius work of a novelist described by The Encyclopedia of ScienceFiction as \"the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US science fiction writers.\"","brand":"The Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182213349616,"sku":"9781590209325","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590209325_p0.jpg?v=1769901260","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590209325","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}