Machines Like Me

From the author of contemporary British prose, famous for his novels Amsterdam, Atonement, Enduring Love, and many others, Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan. Intellectual prose in every sense. Against the backdrop of the political situation in England, when it was time for Margaret Thatcher to leave the post of Prime Minister, and in science, Alan Turing made a breakthrough in the creation of artificial intelligence, the story of the main characters unfolds. A lost failure, Charlie, falls in love with Miranda—a girl with a great secret in her past. When Charlie suddenly comes into money, he first buys Adam—one of the first androids. Along with Miranda, they create a personality for Adam. The new being is almost an ideal human. And soon the trio forms a love triangle. The author poses the most important questions in the novel: what makes us human? what determines our actions and inner world? can a machine understand the human heart? Machines like Adam are our not-so-distant future. Are we ready to perceive an inanimate machine as a sentient being? How perfect are androids and how imperfect are we, sometimes not understanding ourselves? The leaves fall. In spring we will be reborn, but alas, not you.