Ian McEwan with Katy Brand | Penguin Podcast

Booker prize-winning author Ian McEwan visits the Penguin studio to talk about his new novel ‘Machines Like Me’ which is out now: amzn.to/2UYa5TD
Set in an alternatives 1980’s in which synthetic humans are on sale. Ian and Katy talk about the ethics of AI, why drinking wine on the top of a mountain is good for your health and how being an A list Hollywood screenwriter can be ‘the ruin of many an English novelist’. Ian’s objects of inspiration include steel drinking cups and a drawing of a squirrel’s skull.
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squirrel skull

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Honestly, "M.L.M." is not an inspired novel, cause it's a "wikipidean" work with boring hyper-descriptive twist in Houellebecq's fashion. Plus, A.I. does not fit in IME's body of work. Why all of a sudden the best sellers' authors, including the cheap ones like Dan Brown, have to write on such a topic ? Are they forced to? VERY LIKELY. That said, pushing back the story to 1982 has no sense at all (the Falklands? Give me a break!), if not to help IME to avoid dealing with today's failing, almost destroyed and islamized LONDON. Possibly, IME's worst idea ever! Along with tedious descriptions of Adam, which sound old, years and years after Kubrick's/ Spielberg's "A.I." or dozens of books and movies on this topic, comes a very predictable plot, where, like I said, London or the UK is completely absent and the characters float in a dumb cloud of non-reality.
P.S. "CHARLIE FRIEND" (can u believe it?) is the anagram for "FIND CHEER LIAR", referred to both Adam and Miranda. Sooooooo cheap...