The Affinities Audiobook (Free)

In our rapidly-changing world of ‘social press’, people are increasingly more in a position to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. Soon of Robert Charles Wilson’s The Affinities, this process is normally supercharged by fresh analytic technologies–genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join among the twenty-two Affinities is to improve one’s existence. It’s like family, and a lot more than family. Your fellow users aren’t just like you, and they aren’t just people who about The Affinities are likely to like you. They’re also the people who have whom you can best cooperate in every regions of life–creative, interpersonal, even financial.

At loose ends both professional and personal, young Adam Fisk takes the suite of tests to find out if he qualifies for just about any of the Affinities, and finds that he’s a match for just one of the biggest, the one called Tau. It’s utopian-at 1st. Problems in every areas of his lifestyle begin to basically type themselves out, as he turns into element of a worldwide network of people dedicated to helping one another-to assisting him.

But as the differing Affinities put their new powers to the test, they begin to rapidly chip away at the energy of government authorities, of global companies, of all institutions of the older world. After that, with dreadful inevitability, the various Affinities begin to go to war–with each other.

What happens following will change Adam, and his world, forever.