The Complete Roderick is widely considered to be the most ambitious and genius work of a velist 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.
John Sladek (1937-2000) was born in the United States andmoved to the U.K. in 1966, where he became involved with the British New Wave movement and New Worlds Magazine, sometimes collaborating with his childhood friend, Thomas M. Disch. Sladek's other novels include The Reproductive System, The Muller-Fokker Effect, and Tik-Tok.