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Machines Like Me: A Novel Audiobook
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“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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“A retrofuturist family drama that doubles as a cautionary fable about artificial intelligence, consent, and justice.”
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“McEwan’s special contribution is not to articulate the challenge of robots but to cleverly embed that challenge in the lives of two people trying to find a way to exist with purpose. That human drama makes Machines Like Me strikingly relevant even though it’s set in a world that never happened almost forty years ago.”
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“Morally complex and very disturbing, animated by a spirit of sinister and intelligent mischief.”
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“[It] manages to flesh out—literally and grippingly—questions about what constitutes a person, and the troubling future of humans if the smart machines we create can overtake us.”
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“An intriguing novel about humans, machines, and what constitutes a self.”
— Publishers Weekly
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New York Times bestseller
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the author of more than a dozen books, including either New York Times bestsellers. His novel Amsterdam won the 1998 Book Prize; Atonement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; and The Child in Time won the Whitbread Award. His story collection, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
About Steven Crossley
Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.