Книга “Machines Like Me” авторства Иэна Макьюэна предлагает читателям погрузиться в альтернативный Лондон 80-х годов, где Чарли, живущий в мире, где люди избегают работы, влюблен в Миранду, яркую студентку, которая скрывает страшную тайну. Когда Чарли получает деньги, он покупает Адама, первого синтетического человека, и вместе с Мирандой они разрабатывают личность Адама. Это почти идеальное существо, красивое, сильное и умное, вскоре образует любовный треугольник. Эти три существа сталкиваются с глубокой моральной дилеммой. Новая книга Иэна Макьюэна, полная подрывных идей и забавных персонажей, предлагает читателю задуматься о том, что такое любовь и как она может повлиять на жизнь людей.
Discover the incredible journey of three extraordinary beings in Ian McEwan's exciting novel Machines Like Me. By sheer chance, Charlie encounters Miranda during a flood whilst dodging the drenched city streets. They find friendship in an unexpected oceanic revelation that unravels any possible chance at love. Subsequently, Charlie receives an immense windfall that allows him to embark on a lustrous new venture, an unprecedented creation: Adam, the enigmatic, experimental robot son enhanced with the attributes of both its conscious life-forms and extraterrestrial interfaces. Once sealed inside the gleaming, high-tech safe, Adam begins revealing his unique and pompous ideas – embodying an unearthly link with the deepest recesses of the marvelous human form. The fabricated alloy slowly grows as the soul arrangements fuse and develop, separating each other with an amalgamation of love stories intricately disguised by a bitter chocolate bar apathetic towards the obsessive human existence. However, as a concealed mirror reflects deeply on the ever-shifting laws of nature, the fascinating interplay of breathtaking phenomena will comes to light as the precary relationship observes developments beyond any prior belief. Delve about in Ian McEWan's wise and fascinating novel to uncover questions of spirituality, morality, technology and identity in a stunning use of fiction as part of our enigmas ever more profoundly complex and enriching journeys.
Аудиокнига «Machines Like Me» написана автором Иэн Макьюэн в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781473568020
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. 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.Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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 of the power to invent things beyond our control.
