' Ian McEwan talks new book Machines Like Me.', 29 April 2019. Conversation with Ian McEwan about ethics, morality, justice, artificial intelligence, and his latest novel Machines Like Me.Įric Volmers. ' Ian McEwan: Episode #36.' Inside the Writer's Studio. The novel is available in paperback from Vintage.Ĭharlie Lovett. Machines Like Me is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Nan A. 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 of the power to invent things beyond our control. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious novel, Machines Like Me.īritain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.

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