Affinities

Robert Charles Wilson, Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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Tor U.K.
01 May 2015

Science fiction; Biology; Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering; Future Society; Society

In our rapidly-changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies - genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life. It's like family, and more than family. Your fellow members aren't just like you, and they aren't just people who are likely to like you. They're also the people with whom you can best cooperate in all areas of life - creative, interpersonal, even financial.At loose ends both professional and personal, young Adam Fisk takes the suite of tests to see if he qualifies for any of the Affinities, and finds that he's a match for one of the largest, the one called Tau. It's utopian - at first. Problems in all areas of his life begin to simply sort themselves out, as he becomes part of a global network of people dedicated to helping one another - to helping him. But as the differing Affinities put their new powers to the test, they begin to rapidly chip away at the power of governments, of global corporations, of all the institutions of the old world. Then, with dreadful inevitability, the different Affinities begin to go to war - with one another. What happens next will change Adam, and his world, forever.

By: Robert Charles Wilson
Edited by: Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Imprint: Tor U.K.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 383g
ISBN: 9780765332622
ISBN 10: 0765332620
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 May 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in California, ROBERT CHARLES WILSON grew up in Canada. He is the author of many acclaimed science fiction novels, including Darwinia, Blind Lake, Julian Comstock, Burning Paradise and the Hugo Award-winning Spin.

Reviews for Affinities

Wilson s trademark well-developed characters and understated but compelling prose are very much in evidence in this quietly believable tale of the near future. Publishers Weekly An intriguing and seriously innovative attempt to grapple with some of the issues raised by the 21st century's obsession with social media. Kirkus Reviews