Machines Like Me

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Ethical quandaries entwine with love and technology.

If you're intrigued by the blurred lines between artificial intelligence and human emotion, "Machines Like Me" might well captivate you. It's set in an alternative history where AI has progressed in unexpected ways, interweaving romance, mystery, and moral dilemmas. Ian McEwan's knack for profound storytelling shines through, making you ponder love's complexities and what it truly means to be human against the backdrop of technological advancements. It's a thought-provoking blend that might leave you questioning the nature of humanity.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)
  • Dragon Award Nominee for Best Alternate History Novel (2019)
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Machines Like Me

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ISBN: 9781787331662
Authors: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2019-04-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Speculative Fiction, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.59
(rated by 31813 readers)

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The new novel from the master storyteller is his best in years and brilliantly McEwan, a moving love story and a mystery, yet, for all its gripping plotline one of the most ethically and morally layered novels written for our times. Set in 1980s London, the story revolves around Charlie: young and reckless, and in love with his upstairs neighbour, the enchanting Miranda whose hidden, murky past hangs between them. He has spent his inheritance on the acquisition of one of twenty-four highly developed robotic humans--named Adam or Eve--developed by Alan Turing after his success on the Enigma codebreaking machine, central to the Allies WWII victory. As London is consumed by the huge protests over England and Argentina's Falklands War and Margaret Thatcher's jingoistic ambitions, Charlie courts Miranda, and his Adam finds himself central to their affair. Great novelist that he is, McEwan pulls us into the question of what it means to love, what it means to be human in our fast-changing times, and how precarious a construct is the world we live in and think we know.
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Ethical quandaries entwine with love and technology.

If you're intrigued by the blurred lines between artificial intelligence and human emotion, "Machines Like Me" might well captivate you. It's set in an alternative history where AI has progressed in unexpected ways, interweaving romance, mystery, and moral dilemmas. Ian McEwan's knack for profound storytelling shines through, making you ponder love's complexities and what it truly means to be human against the backdrop of technological advancements. It's a thought-provoking blend that might leave you questioning the nature of humanity.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)
  • Dragon Award Nominee for Best Alternate History Novel (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.