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Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious novel, Machines Like Me.
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 1980's 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 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.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
- Published : 2019 (Jonathan Cape - 1st Edition, 1st Printing)
- ISBN : 9781787331662
- SKU : B003212
- PPC : SP600gm
- RRP : £18.99 (Unclipped)
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
‘McEwan turns his incisive authorial eye to the brave new world of artificial intelligence. Rewinding the clock on an alternative eighties Britain McEwan delivers a spry and accomplished novel, set in a place where the Beatles have reformed, Tony Benn has swept into office and radical technology spawns a new generation of artificial humans. A story ripe with questions about consciousness, inevitability and the nature of desire.' - Waterstones.
'Machines like Me displays impressive richness. Excited by ideas and perceptive about emotions, encompassing cutting-edge science, philosophical speculation and lively social observation, it is funny, thought-provoking and politically acute. In this bravura performance, literary flair and cerebral sizzle winningly combine.' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times.
'Original, and as always with McEwan’s novels, beautifully written.' - The Independent.
'Machines Like Me traverses the muddled morality of Artificial Intelligence . . . This is new and exciting ground for McEwan, one of Britain's most consistently brilliant writers.' - Olivia Ovenden, Harper's Bazaar, The Books We Can't Wait To Read.
'McEwan returns with another ambitious, high-concept work, exploring some very timely moral dilemmas.' - Economia, The Pick of 2019 Reads.
The Author
Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
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