The Affinities

The AffinitiesIn 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

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