Machines Like Me
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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- 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 1Q84.
Many of Iain M. Banks' characters are. Try The Algebraist or The Player of Games.
In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the main character keeps mostly to herself, but I'm not sure if that's due to her introversion or the broken world she lives in.
- 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.
- The novel "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan explores a Britain where Turing survived.
- 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 malintent; books are art, and appreciation is personal.]
