The Resource Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
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The item Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385545112
- Label
- Machines like me : and people like you
- Title
- Machines like me
- Title remainder
- and people like you
- Statement of responsibility
- Ian McEwan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
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- McEwan, Ian
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6063.C4
- LC item number
- M33 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Artificial intelligence
- Love triangles
- Students
- Couples
- Falkland Islands War, 1982
- Secrets
- Robots
- Posthumanism
- Humans
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- Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
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- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385545112
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2018055227
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- First United States edition.
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- 333 pages
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- 9780385545112
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- (hardback)
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- 2018055227
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