Roderick or the Education of a Young Machine

<b> From the back cover of the Timescape paperback:</b> "In a small, top-secret laboratory at the University of Minnetonka... A NASA-funded project has created... Roderick the Robot - brainchild of Dr. Lee Wong - a real, complete, functioning, artificial boy. <p>Now after long, lonely hours in front of the television, Roderick has learned English, and the ways of the world. Now he is ready to meet Ma and Pa Wood, his elderly adoptive parents - and embark on the kind of adventures that would make any red-blooded kid sit up and take notice. <p>Soon Roderick is warming a barstool of Larry's Grill, playing doctor with a precocious nymphet, getting beaten up in the schoolyard, and banished to Holy Trinity to learn catechism - and some manners... <p>But what more can a blue-eye space robot expect in a world where nothing makes any more sense than prime time TV!"

US Timescape/Pocket version is about 2/3 of original UK version. US Carroll & Graf edition is complete.

Year	Award	Category	Status
1983	Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award	Best International Long Fiction	Nominee/Finalist
1983	Locus Poll Award	Best SF Novel	Nominee/Finalist
1983	Philip K. Dick Award	Philip K. Dick Award	Nominee/Finalist