Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
Machines Like Me
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 03/2020
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, A-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781529111262
- Bestellnummer: 9456618
- Umfang: 305 Seiten
- Gewicht: 212 g
- Maße: 178 x 110 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.3.2020
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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 occurs 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 Mirandäs 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 of the power to invent things beyond our control.