![]() Alan Turing, the brilliant real-life mathematician who “got into trouble with the law for having a homosexual relationship” and died in 1954, is here alive and well and, since 1969, living openly with his lover, Tom Reah, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist.īritain loses the Falklands War, along with thousands of lives. ![]() Machines Like Me is a postmodern novel set in a 1982 alternate London. Boy squanders £86,000 of an inheritance to buy an android (Adam), a “triumph of engineering and software design.” It’s also a rather simple, familiar plot with a cunning twist on the romantic triangle.īoy (32-year-old Charlie Friend, a goalless anthropologist/day trader) meets girl (his upstairs neighbor, 22-year-old Miranda, a doctoral scholar of social history). Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan’s captivating, speculative new novel, Machines Like Me, is a little complicated. ![]()
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