“Before us sat the ultimate plaything, the dream of ages, the triumph of humanism—or its angel of death.”
Machines Like Me takes place 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 synthetic humans and—with Miranda’s help—he designs Adam’s personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn’t long before a love triangle forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma.
In his subversive new novel, Ian McEwan asks whether a machine can understand the human heart—or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.
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“Steven Crossley is a frequent narrator for McEwan’s novels, and one who conveys with subtle effect McEwan’s most ingenious and subversive story lines. That voice is a modern variation of the detached, worldly narrator of classic British suspense fiction…This high-class entertainment challenges the mind, tests the wits, and teases and confounds the imagination at every turn. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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