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Machines Like Me : From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons

Author: Ian McEwan
SKU: 9781529111262

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Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.

When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms.

These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. 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 of the power to invent things beyond our control.

 

  • Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Format:Paperback

ISBN : 9781529111262

Published : 5 Mar 2020

Author : Ian McEwan

Language : English

Main Material : Paperback

Publisher : Random House

Size : 110 x 177 x 23 (mm)

Weight : 216g

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