Skip Ferderber

This was quite a novel, probably among the best investigations of man and robot living together. Having grown up ascribing to Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotic, the greater questions of man/machine relationships in the age of artificial intelligence certainly needed addressing. McEwan has added a terrific chapter in our quest for meaning in this area. It isn't that Adam, the Android, goes rogue. Instead he becomes too thoughtful for his own good, too, yes, human. My real problem with the book, which turns on a steampunk/revisionist history of Great Britain in the late 1980s and the survival of Alan Turing, is that it's British to the core. The author's literary conceit, that Britain lost the Falklands War, etc., had me Googling the real history of the times and trying as a Yank to understand what the revisionist life meant to Brits who lived the real life. Had it not been for my chauvinist streak, I might have given it five stars. But do read it. You'll love Adam. Or perhaps, Adam will love you.