"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"--
Biografie
Ian McEwan, geboren 1948, lebt in London. Schon seine ersten Erzählungen wurden 1976 mit dem Somerset-Maugham-Award ausgezeichnet. 1999 erhielt er den Shakespeare-Preis der Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung für das Gesamtwerk und 2011 wurde er mit dem Jerusalem Preis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Ian McEwan ist Ehrenmitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
