Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan - 2019
A Novel
By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-23-19
Genre: Sci-Fi, Alternate History
Language: English
Format: mp3 64/22.05 stereo
Publisher: Recorded Books
Publisher's Summary
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winner and international best-selling author of Atonement and The Children Act
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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. 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? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.
©2019 Ian McEwan (P)2019 Recorded Books
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