In a parallel dimension more technically advanced than our own, email and the internet have arrived early, Alan Turing is the most famous and influential living Briton, Margaret Thatcher has lost the Falklands War, Tony Benn leads a resurgent Labour Party to victory and realistic androids, or synthetic humans, have just been released onto the market.Ĭharlie Friend, the novel’s flawed protagonist, uses the last of a family inheritance to purchase one of these strange creations, an almost entirely lifelike robotic simulacrum named, inevitably, Adam (our hero has just missed out on obtaining one of a limited-edition run of female figures called Eve). The reader is thrust into an alternative vision of the 1980s, ‘the autumn of the twentieth century’. I an McEwan’s new novel guides us into the foothills of science fiction.
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