**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**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 - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart.'Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute…' Sunday Times'Dazzling' Guardian'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: | 9781529111255 |
Publisher: | Random House |
Imprint: | Vintage |
Published date: | 05 Mar 2020 |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Sales rank: | 23607 |
Number of pages: | 305 |
Weight: | 282g |
Height: | 129mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 24mm |