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Machines like me
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McEwan, Ian

Machines like me : and people like you / Ian McEwan

London : Vintage, 2020

Abstract: Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

The testaments
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Atwood, Margaret

The testaments / Margaret Atwood

London : Chatto & Windus, 2019

Abstract: ** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 **\n\n** SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **\n\nBOOK OF THE YEAR: Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Stylist, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, The Times, Observer, Red\n\nMargaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.\n\nMore than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.\n\nTwo have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.\n\nAs Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. \n\n'Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.' Margaret Atwood

Black mirror
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Black mirror : the complete fourth series / [serie creata da] Charlie Brooker

[S.l.] : Dazzler Media, 2017

Abstract: Black Mirror returns with more twisted adventures from the genius mind of Charlie Brooker. The sci-fi anthology series sees humanity's sleekest innovations collide with our darkest instincts in a terrifyingly familiar near-future. USS Callister: A woman wakes up on a Star Trek-esque space ship where the crew praise their all-knowing and fearless captain, who has used DNA scans to simulate real people within his game. Arkangel: After nearly losing her daughter, a mother invests in a new technology that allows her to keep track of her child. Crocodile: A woman's past comes back to haunt her while an insurance adjuster questions people about an accident with a memory machine. Hang the DJ: A new dating app allows the matched couples to be told how long their relationships will last. Metalhead: A woman attempts to survive in a dangerous land full of robotic guard-dogs. Black Museum: A woman enters a museum where the proprietor tells her stories relating to the technological artifacts

Black mirror
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Black mirror : the complete third series / [serie creata da] Charlie Brooker

[S.l.] : Dazzler Media, 2017

Abstract: All six episodes from the third series of the sci-fi anthology drama created by Charlie Brooker which explores the role of technology in modern society. In this instalment, a woman tries to improve her social media status, two soldiers do battle with a gang of mutants and an American signs up for a trial of an augmented reality game. The episodes are: 'Nosedive', 'Playtest', 'Shut Up and Dance', 'San Junipero', 'Men Against Fire' and 'Hated in the Nation'.

Fatherland
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HARRIS, Robert

Fatherland / Robert Harris

London : Arrow, 2009

Abstract: It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich.

Death in Oslo
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HOLT, Anne

Death in Oslo / Anne Holt ; traslated by Kari Dickson

London : Sphere,2009

Abstract: When Helen Barclay becomes the first female US president, the whole world takes notice. And unfortunately for President Barclay, one man takes very particular notice. He knows her dark secret, buried for over twenty years. And not only does he have the power to destroy everything she's worked for, but he also has the ultimate motive. Revenge. Unfortunately for the FBI and the Norwegian police, nobody knows about this when Helen Barclay chooses to visit Norway for her first state visit. But when she goes missing from a locked, heavily secured bedroom, they are forced - unwillingly - to work together to find her. Has she been kidnapped? Murdered? Can the US president really just disappear into thin air...? Taut, gripping and chillingly convincing, Death in Oslo is a brilliant new thriller from one of the world's most popular crime writers.

Nineteen eighty-four
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Orwell, George

Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell

London : Penguin books, 2008

Abstract: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thriteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101... Nineteen Eight-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. 'More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of.' - Jo Brand 'Right up there among my favourite books. . . I read it again and again.' - Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451
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BRADBURY, Ray

Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury

London : Harper voyager, 2008

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ˆThe ‰children of men
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JAMES, P. D.

ˆThe ‰children of men / P. D. James

London : Faber and Faber, 2006

Equilibrium
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Equilibrium / regia: Kurt Wimmer

[S.l.] : Momentum Pictures, 2003

Abstract: Nella nazione chiamata Libria regna la pace tra gli uomini. Ogni emozione è stata bandita perché considerata la vera radice del male e origine di ogni guerra. Per sedare le emozioni lo stato fornisce una droga obbligatoria, il Prozium, che dà a tutti lo stesso fittizio equilibrio. Squadre speciali di poliziotti addestrati hanno il compito di scovare i ribelli. John Preston, alto funzionario governativo, ha sempre creduto fermamente nel sistema fino a quando per caso salta una dose di Prozium e scopre un nuovo mondo di sensazioni che gli danno il coraggio di lottare per la libertà.

The handmaid's tale
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Atwood, Margaret

The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood

London : Vintage books, 1996

Abstract: A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a bit of bite. The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

Slaughterhouse-five or the childrens crusade
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Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse-five or the childrens crusade : a duty-dance with death / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

London : Vintage, 1991

Vintage fiction

Abstract: Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.