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Machines like me and people like you: Ian McEwan.

Machines like me and people like you: Ian McEwan.
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ISBN 9781528889711
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Author McEwan, Ian
Title Machines like me and people like you / Ian McEwan.
Edition Large print
Publication Details Rearsby, Leicester:
©2019 W F Howes,
Collation 372 pages : 24 cm ;
Abstract/Summary Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. 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 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?
Subject General fiction
Artificial intelligence -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Large type books
General fiction
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