Machines Like Me (HB)

Author(s): Ian McEwan

Fiction

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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781787331662
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Jonathan Cape
  • : 0.622
  • : March 2019
  • : ---length:- '24'width:- '15.6'units:- Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ian McEwan
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 823/.914
  • : 320