He and Miranda, the younger woman living above him, each supply half the “personality parameters” required to push Adam past his factory presets. The narrator, Charlie Friend, an aimless 32-year-old, inherits enough money to buy one of the pricey robots. The year is 1982, the British are about to lose the Falklands War, and Alan Turing is not only still alive, but his work has helped give rise to a line of androids almost indistinguishable from humans. The British author’s latest novel concerns a triangle formed by two humans and one android in an alternate version of England.
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