![]() The chilling The Child in Time occurs in a near future, after a fight between Soviet and American Olympic athletes almost escalates into nuclear war. ![]() This isn’t the first time McEwan has walked on the wild side of science fiction. He even reaches out to the U.S., where JFK escapes a “near-death in Dallas.”) (Googling some of the facts indicates what McEwan has done to rearrange his world. ![]() ![]() Prime Minister Tony Benn vies for power with Margaret Thatcher until he is killed in the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Alan Turing, the brilliant real-life mathematician who “got into trouble with the law for having a homosexual relationship” and died in 1954, is here alive and well and, since 1969, living openly with his lover, Tom Reah, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist.īritain loses the Falklands War, along with thousands of lives. Machines Like Me is a postmodern novel set in a 1982 alternate London. Boy squanders £86,000 of an inheritance to buy an android (Adam), a “triumph of engineering and software design.” Boy (32-year-old Charlie Friend, a goalless anthropologist/day trader) meets girl (his upstairs neighbor, 22-year-old Miranda, a doctoral scholar of social history). ![]()
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