He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.

McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. 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. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch 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. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. “McEwan brings humor and considerable ethical rumination to a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence.Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. an intriguing novel about humans, machines, and what constitutes a self.” Morally complex and very disturbing, animated by a spirit of sinister and intelligent mischief that feels unique to its author.” The narrative is propulsive, thanks to our uncertainties about the characters’ motives, the turning points that suddenly reconfigure our understanding of the plot, and the figure of Adam, whose ambiguous energy is both mysteriously human and mysteriously not. “Reminds you of mastery of the underrated craft of storytelling. a retrofuturist family drama that doubles as a cautionary fable about artificial intelligence, consent, and justice.”

That human drama makes Machines Like Me strikingly relevant even though it’s set in a world that never happened almost 40 years ago.” McEwan’s special contribution is not to articulate the challenge of robots but to cleverly embed that challenge in the lives of two people trying to find a way to exist with purpose. Dick asked, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,’ and now McEwan is sure those androids are pulling the wool over our eyes. “ is not only one of the most elegant writers alive, he is one of the most astute at crafting moral dilemmas within the drama of everyday life.

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