The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart-and a love triangle soon forms. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London-where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence- Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement-”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” ( The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.
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