Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan · first published 2019
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Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan. The novel 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. The story revolves around an android named Adam and its/his relationship with its/his owners, Charlie and Miranda, which involves the formation of a love triangle.
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Yeah, I thought Asimov was all over this long ago. Also see "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan for a recent go at sentient androids.
on “Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning” ↗The main character of Machines Like Me [https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781787331679/Machines-McEwan-Ian...] is, somewhat. (Also a decent sci-fi story) Haruki Murakami's narrators all seem like introverts to me. Try Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki or…
on “Ask HN: Fiction about Introverts?” ↗The novel "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan explores a Britain where Turing survived.
on “Alan Turing died 70 years ago” ↗Lacking the shame to avoid asking for recommendations from time to time¹. Imagining you're the type of person that really wanted to like Machines Like Me for its concept but found the exposition truly painful, are other McEwan books worth a read? Basically was Machines Like Me an outlier or standard McEwan? [Edit: Worded harshly, but without too much…
on “Ian McEwan and the Mess of Living” ↗