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The Affinities
The Affinities | Robert Charles Wilson
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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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The.Intentional.Reader
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Love this book. Rereading it for the 3rd time!

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Saving to my #TBR because it looks SO GOOD, but I can‘t start any new books right now. Have any of you read this one?

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In the near future, socio groups have very nearly taken over. These groups called Affinities, place people in like groups based on very specific factors. But with the good this brings there also come the bad.

I really, really liked this book. I loved the characters and the plot development. It was just real enough to see it happening in our time. A great read and very relevant.

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Scott_BookInvasion
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Mehso-so

It was ok. No outstanding moments but no 'lulls' either. Solid and steady.

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WanderingBookaneer
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I am teaching my seventh graders about dystopias. They received a handout with the characteristics of a dystopian society. This book contains most of them. Although tranches work because of the combined skills of their members, ultimately the society as prescribed by your affinity propagates the idea that individuality and dissent are bad.

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#BooksAndFood Guava chicken burger.

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The propaganda continues.

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Pork loin with apple chutney at our favorite food truck.

Suzze Oh, man! That looks so good. The only food truck I have ever seen here sells hot dogs. 8y
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Afternoon on the deck. Too hot to sit in the sun and I'm about to make mint juleps so I wanted something fast paced. Hopefully this fits the bill.

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