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Join a utopian network of like-minded individuals.

The Affinities could be a great read for those interested in technology's impact on society. The novel explores the idea of genetic, brain-mapping, and behavioral sorting technologies that allow people to join specific groups tailored to their unique characteristics. The book's most unique feature is how it explores the consequences of this technological development, including how it can lead to conflicts between different groups. If you're looking for a thought-provoking and engaging page-turner that examines the potential near-future impact of technology, The Affinities is the perfect book for you.

  • Sunburst Award Nominee for Adult (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Robert Charles Wilson
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ISBN: 9780765384447
Authors: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tor Books
Date of Publication: 2016-05-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.4
(rated by 2430 readers)

Description

In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity 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, and behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life.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 Tau, one of the largest. Joining Tau is utopian--at first. Problems in all areas of Adam's life begin to simply sort themselves out as he becomes part of a worldwide network of people dedicated to helping one another--to helping him.But there are other Affinities than Tau, with differing skills, strengths, and views about what to do with their newfound powers. As all twenty-two Affinities go global, they rapidly chip away at the power of governments, of corporations, of all the institutions of the old world. Then, with dreadful inevitability, the Affinities begin to go to war--with one another.For Adam, and for the world, human life will never be the same.
 

Join a utopian network of like-minded individuals.

The Affinities could be a great read for those interested in technology's impact on society. The novel explores the idea of genetic, brain-mapping, and behavioral sorting technologies that allow people to join specific groups tailored to their unique characteristics. The book's most unique feature is how it explores the consequences of this technological development, including how it can lead to conflicts between different groups. If you're looking for a thought-provoking and engaging page-turner that examines the potential near-future impact of technology, The Affinities is the perfect book for you.

  • Sunburst Award Nominee for Adult (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.