These statements flag a fateful backstory comprising a teenage Miranda, two schoolmates, and a death threat. Early on, the android has told Charlie that Miranda is a liar and might harm him without providing details. Before long, as things between the humans seem to be getting serious, Charlie finds himself the first man “to be cuckolded by an artefact.” They all survive the fling, although Charlie imagines he detects “the scent of warm electronics on her sheets,” and Adam turns lovesick, composing 2,000 haiku for Miranda (namesake of the Bard’s character who famously utters: “O brave new world, / That has such people in’t”). He and Miranda, the younger woman living above him, each supply half the “personality parameters” required to push Adam past his factory presets. The narrator, Charlie Friend, an aimless 32-year-old, inherits enough money to buy one of the pricey robots. The year is 1982, the British are about to lose the Falklands War, and Alan Turing is not only still alive, but his work has helped give rise to a line of androids almost indistinguishable from humans.
The British author’s latest novel concerns a triangle formed by two humans and one android in an alternate version of England.
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