![]() ![]() He falls in love with his upstairs neighbour Miranda, and spends an £86,000 inheritance on Adam, one of a new breed of humanoid robots “with plausible intelligence and looks, believable motion and shifts of expression”.Īdam is 170lb, looks Greek or possibly Turkish, and is “not a sex doll”, although he can have sex. ![]() ![]() As Britain loses the Falklands war and Tony Benn is elected prime minister, a 32-year-old Londoner called Charlie embarks on two new relationships. The book is set in an alternate version of the 1980s, where artificial intelligence research has far outstripped its current limits. “It was religious yearning granted hope, it was the holy grail of science,” begins Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Machines Like Me. ![]()
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