![]() ![]() Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever - a love triangle soon forms. Adam, one of twenty-five new artificial humans (twelve male and thirteen female) have been made available for purchase at an exorbitant sum. ![]() With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. Machines Like Me does all these things and more. He marries a gripping plot, handled with rarefied skill and dexterity, to a deep excavation of the narrowing gap between the canny and the uncanny, leaving the reader pleasurably dizzied, and marvelling at human existence. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. In Machines Like Me, McEwan is grappling, still, with the novel qua novel. ![]() Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Set in the 1980s in an alternative history timeline in which the UK lost the Falklands War. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Publication date Topics robot, android, Ian McEwan, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Language English. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winner and international best-selling author of Atonement and The Children Act ![]()
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