Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan
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Pub Date 18 Apr 2019 | Archive Date 12 Mar 2020
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Jonathan Cape
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Description
**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**
In a world not quite like this one, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing has achieved an astonishing breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
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 – and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine truly understand the human heart? Provocative and thrilling, Machines Like Me warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.
‘Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute… In this bravura performance, literary flair and cerebral sizzle winningly combine’ Sunday Times
Advance Praise
'[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'
Harper's Bazaar, *The Books We Can't Wait To Read in 2019*
'Ian McEwan's latest novel, Machines Like Me, is a topsy-turvy tour de force'
Evening Standard
'Ian McEwan has always been a generous writer to his readers, his novels bulging with big ideas and rich story-telling... [it's] hard not to admire the sheer scale of McEwan's ambition. Many literary novels claim to be exploring 'what it is to be human'. Few carry out this exploration as thoroughly, or as literally, as [Machines Like Me] does'
Daily Mail
'The novel is as honed and well constructed as one would expect from McEwan... a sleek and streamlined work by a master technician'
Literary Review
'McEwan returns with another ambitious, high-concept work... [exploring] some very timely moral dilemmas'
Economia, The pick of 2019 reads
'In [Machines Like Me], McEwan has taken his creativity into a subversive alternative 1980s London... the young couple at the centre of McEwan's story find out the danger in inventing things beyond our control'
BBC News
'McEwan gives the whole subject of artificial intelligence a thorough and fascinating examination... a rich and thought-provoking read'
Reader's Digest
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781787331662 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 320 |
