Machines Like Me reminds us that McEwan is once-in-a-generation talent, offering readerly pleasure, cerebral incisiveness and an enticing imagination. * Spectator * [ Machines Like Me] is right up there with his very best [ novels]. Machines Like Me manages to combine the dark acidity of McEwans great early stories with the crowd-pleasing readability of his more recent work. A novel this smart oughtnt to be such fun, but it is. * Observer * Ian McEwans Machines Like Me is a dazzling account of our interaction with technology He marries a gripping plot, handled with rarefied skill and dexterity, to a deep excavation of the narrowing gap between the canny and the uncanny, leaving the reader pleasurably dizzied, and marvelling at human existence. * Independent * Compelling unforgettably strange there are many pleasures and many moments of profound disquiet in this book, which reminds you of its authors mastery of the underrated craft of storytelling [ Machines Like Me] is morally complex and very disturbing, animated by a spirit of sinister and intelligent mischief that feels unique to its author. * Guardian * [ McEwan's] fierce intelligence [ crackles] like a Jumping Jack on Bonfire Night Arguably the finest English writer of his generation, the ideas he explores are important, now more that ever. * Daily Express * [ McEwan is] as mordant a chronicler of the age as we have Machines Like Me offers as good a primer on the multifarious anxieties that should afflict us all as anything catalogued as non-fiction. * GQ * Machines like Me displays impressive richness. Excited by ideas and perceptive about emotions, encompassing cutting-edge science, philosophical speculation and lively social observation, it is funny, thought-provoking and politically acute In this bravura performance, literary flair and cerebral sizzle winningly combine. * Sunday Times * Original, and as always with McEwans novels, beautifully written. * Independent, *Summer Reads of 2019* * McEwan knows all the novelistic rules [ and his] restlessness when it comes to subject matter, even as he enters his seventies, is stunning [ Machines Like Me] shimmer[ s] with relevance. * Financial Times * [ Machines Like Me] traverses the muddled morality of Artificial Intelligence... This is new and exciting ground for McEwan, one of Britain's most consistently brilliant writers. * Harper's Bazaar, *The Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2019* *
