Machines like me
McEwan, Ian.
Machines like me - London: Penguin random house, 2019 - 306p. pb; 23 cm
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?
9781787331679
Science Fiction.
Alternative Histories (Fiction)
Robots.
Kunstmatige Intelligentie.
Nineteen Eighties -- Fiction.
Artificial Intelligence -- Fiction.
Man-Woman Relationships -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal Relations) -- Fiction.
Robots -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- 20th Century -- Fiction.
Great Britain.
823.92 MCE
Machines like me - London: Penguin random house, 2019 - 306p. pb; 23 cm
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?
9781787331679
Science Fiction.
Alternative Histories (Fiction)
Robots.
Kunstmatige Intelligentie.
Nineteen Eighties -- Fiction.
Artificial Intelligence -- Fiction.
Man-Woman Relationships -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal Relations) -- Fiction.
Robots -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- 20th Century -- Fiction.
Great Britain.
823.92 MCE
