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Machines Like Me Hardcover – April 18, 2019

by Ian McEwan (Author)
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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 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 of the power to invent things beyond our control.

‘This is new and exciting ground for McEwan, one of Britain's most consistently brilliant writers.’ Esquire
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  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Jonathan Cape
  4. Publication date
    April 18, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6.38 x 1.26 x 9.45 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1787331660
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1787331662
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jonathan Cape; 1st edition (April 18, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787331660
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787331662
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.37 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.26 x 9.45 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His other award-winning novels are The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize.

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Krystal Hengey
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful story to get lost into.
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020
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I absolutely adored reading this book.

The plot takes place in the 80s on a world where Alan Turing survived. Since Turing was a genius in all things science and technology, the world is in a far more advanced state in the 80s. Surpassing the technology that we know now in 2020.

The main characters are Charlie, Meridith, and Adam. Adam is a artificial intelligence fueld being. So real in fact that most people don't even know he isnt human.

The story is a tale of how Adam comes into these peoples lives, how he helps them grow, in maturity as well as financially, all to bring it crashing to their inevitable ruin.

The author beautifully recreates history around the story. Stock markets, presidents, leaders in government. The rise of rights for the artificial intelligence beings. Truly a great story and one wild creation. Great read
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Antonina S
3.0 out of 5 stars OK exterior, fantastic inside
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021
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Decent condition. Bent and beat up page corners, creative and thought-provoking book.
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sally perry
5.0 out of 5 stars It could almost be real.
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2019
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I think one of the things that makes science fiction very good is the fact that it could very nearly be real. The fact that we already have e-helpers in the form of Siri and others, makes this story almost believable.
A young man, not terribly keen on working, inherits some money and buys Adam, a very lifelike robot. He and his girlfriend spend time programming various traits into this man. Of course a love-triangle develops.
As the book progresses Adam gets more and more 'human' and I got to really empathise with him.
This book makes you really think about lifelike robots and how far one would like them to become 'human'.
The ending is very emotional.
Fascinating.
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HelenNZ
4.0 out of 5 stars It's about Artificial Intelligence - intelligently so
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2019
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Ian McEwan is tackling a difficult subject - our attitude to artificial intelligence - namely very human looking robots. He does so with thoughtfulness. This book raises many questions about moral dilemmas, about the madness inherent in being human, about how a perfected human being would operate. It's interesting. It does go on a bit. Not sure if it's necessary to have the rather long lectures within the story. Still, I like Ian McEwan and I like that he tackles contemporary and difficult subjects.
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John S. Stevenson
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly written
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019
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Ian McEwan is a truly gifted writer. So many phrases, sentences and paragraphs were so beautifully written that I had to go back and re-read them. The subject matter was wonderful and kind of like a refined, classy and more human version of the mini-series, "West World". I loved "Machines Like Me', and already have several of McEwans other books on my must-read list.
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Mitchell Sandler
4.0 out of 5 stars A philosophical Ian McEwan
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019
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Rather like ‘Enduring Love’, this title can be read in two ways. McEwan explores the ramifications of AI in our daily lives, in an alternative universe in which technology has advanced much more quickly, and in which Alan Turing lives to a happy old age. It’s good that Turing is part of the story, because it keeps his test for consciousness in the forefront: that if you keep getting plausible answers, as from a conscious being, you’re dealing with a conscious being. But this robot is more than a hyper-Alexa, he’s there as corporeal entity as well. I spent the first part of the book wondering what it would be like to live full-time with such a super intelligent ‘machine’, but McEwan gets you to wonder, too, what it might be like for the robot.
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C.A.Wesdorp
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on the intriguing relationship of humans and artificial intelligence
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2019
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I thoroughly enjoyed McEwin's rich language, his insights in human emotions and now extended into the intricacies of living with intelligent machines. The multilayered story is beautifully framed against the background of the UK in the periode of the Falkland war and builds on the work of Alan Turing who already predicted that the differences between humans and humanoids would fade away ....
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filo2far
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2024
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Well worth a read. If, like me, you appreciate Ian Mcewn's writing, you will enjoy this glimpse into the potential hazards of human relations with intelligent life-like robots.
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Vlad Thelad
5.0 out of 5 stars Farfetched? Not in the hands of McEwan
Reviewed in Canada on May 27, 2019
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I heard about the premise of this book, and it did not quite attract me. Set in the 1980s within an alternative history of the twentieth century we encounter a leading trio of characters, and one of them is a machine. It might sound farfetched to say the least, but fiction is supposed to be limitless when it comes to a writer’s imagination, and when the writer is Ian McEwan, you know you are in safe hands. You have to come along for the ride. Therefore, overcoming my initial lack of enthusiasm, I bumped it to the top of my “to read” list, and I am so glad I did. In “Machines Like Me” there is depth, there is humanity, erudition, and humour, but above all there is yet another wonderful McEwan novel. You will find it hard to put down until the end, and it is sure to linger with you for long after.
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Hanna
5.0 out of 5 stars literarisch wie sachlich: Ein Supervergnügen!
Reviewed in Germany on October 21, 2020
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Der Titel sagt schon vieles aus. Der Author, von dem wir viel erwarten dürfen: Er liefert! Kein mühselig (und trotzdem vergeblicher) Versuch, die Vor- und Nachteile der künstlichen Intelligenz zu erklären, wie Hannah Frey in "Hello World" (siehe meine Rezension), sondern vermeintlich leichte, auf jeden Fall immer vergnügliche Kost, die auf diese Weise wieder und wieder interessante Gedankenanstösse liefert. Eine Liebesgeschichte, ein Roboter, ein strafbares Delikt. Aber nicht einfach 3 stories in einem Buch. Jeder dieser Handlungsstränge erklären die anderen und bedingen einander im Verlauf. Auf spielerische Weise verweist der Author auf jene Aspekte des menschlichen Lebens, die nicht durch KI zu ersetzen sind: Den (gottlob) irrationalen Menschen, dessen Handlungen eben nicht durchgängig konsequent sind und uns auch dadurch erst zum Menschen machen. Wird das Entscheiden Robotern überlassen, stehen wir perplex vor dem konsequenten Ergebnis.
Ein wunderbares Buch und ein wichtiger Beitrag zur aktuellen KI-Debatte.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Machines like me
Reviewed in Italy on September 30, 2019
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Filosofia del digitale e della scienza? certamente leggere questo romanzo mi ha coinvolto in una profonda riflessione sull'intelligenza artificiale e contemporaneamente sull'identità del genere umano. Ho apprezzato la scrittura dell'autore, ma anche i suoi approfondimenti tecnici e scientifici. La citazione iniziale di Rudjard Kipling sull'incapacità delle macchine di saper mentire appare quanto mai moderna, poichè da essa nasce l'incompatibilità tra uomo e "macchina".
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pseudo9
5.0 out of 5 stars arrivé en excellent état
Reviewed in France on November 28, 2019
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emballage de tres bonne qualité :le livre n a pas souffert des mauvaises conditions .
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