Machines like me
Publication details: Penguin random house, 2019 London: Description: 306p. pb; 23 cmISBN:- 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
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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?
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