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In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to form themselves into social groups predicated on finer and finer standards. Soon of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this technique is supercharged by new analytic technologies - genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To become listed on one of the 22 Affinities is to change one's life. It's like family, and much more than family. Your fellow users aren't just like you, plus they aren't just individuals who are likely to as if you. They're also the people who have whom you can best cooperate in all areas of life - creative, social, even financial. At loose ends both professional and personal, young Adam Fisk needs the collection of testing to see if he qualifies for just about any of the Affinities, and confirms that he's a match for one of the largest, the main one called Tau. It's utopian - initially. Problems in all areas of his life begin to simply form themselves out, as he becomes part of a worldwide network of individuals dedicated to aiding each other - to aiding him. But as the differing Affinities put their new capabilities to the test, they begin to rapidly chip away at the energy of governments, of global firms, of all the organizations of the old world. Then, with dreadful inevitability, the different Affinities begin to visit conflict - with each other. What goes on next will change Adam, and his world, permanently.
