Passages

John Sladek's The Complete Roderick [1] collects both of Sladek's novels about the eponymous (though almost everyone gets his name wrong throughout the books) robot: Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine and sequel, Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine. Presumably named for the hero of Tobias Smollet's picaresque 18th century novel The Adventures of Roderick Random, Roderick has his own series of random and absurd adventures.