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{{Short description|1980 science fiction novel by John Sladek}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine 
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = File:RoderickNovel.jpg
| caption       = First edition
| author        = [[John Sladek]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Science fiction]]  
| publisher     = [[Granada plc|Granada]]
| release_date  = 13 November 1980
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 352   
| isbn          = 0-246-11437-1
| dewey         = 813/.54 19
| congress      = PS3569.L25 R64 1980
| oclc          = 8412449
| preceded_by   = 
| followed_by   = [[Roderick at Random]]
}}

'''''Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine''''' is a [[1980 in literature|1980]] [[science fiction]] novel by American writer [[John Sladek]]. It was nominated for a [[Philip K. Dick Award]] and was followed in [[1983 in literature|1983]] by '''''Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine'''''. The two books were originally intended as a single longer novel, and were finally reissued together in [[2001 in literature|2001]] as ''The Complete Roderick''. It was included in [[David Pringle]]'s book ''[[Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels]]''.