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Machines Like Me

Machines Like Me

McEwan, Ian

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Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0525567038
ISBN13: 9780525567035
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 3 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement--a sharply intelligent novel of ideas (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.

Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London--where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence--Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. 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 generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart--and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping 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.

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