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Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan. The novel was published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape. The novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative history timeline in which the UK lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is still alive, and the Internet, social media, and self-driving cars already exist.
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Apr 18, 2019 · Machines like Me. Ian McEwan. 3.59. 31,244 ratings3,790 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Science Fiction (2019) Britain 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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May 1, 2019 · MACHINES LIKE ME By Ian McEwan. Ian McEwan’s latest novel asks if the manufacture of synthetic humans would spark enlightenment and ease or fractiousness and pain — but, come on,...
Apr 23, 2019 · Ian McEwan imagines an alternate, technologically-advanced 1982 England in his new novel, in which the development of lifelike, artificially intelligent cyborgs leads to some uncomfortable...
Apr 29, 2019 · Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious novel, Machines Like Me. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
Apr 23, 2019 · Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping 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.
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Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence— Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding.