The Affinities

by Robert Wilson

Publisher:

Tor Books

, 2015

Overview

New technology brings people together—and leads to war—in this “intriguing and seriously innovative" novel by the Hugo Award–winning author of Spin ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In the near future, social media’s ability to sort people into groups has been supercharged by new analytic technologies. Using genetics, brain-mapping, and behavioral psychology, anyone can be assessed for inclusion in The Affinities. And to join one of the Affinities is to change your life. It’s not that your fellow members are just like you—they’re the people with whom you can best cooperate in all areas of life.
Adrift both professionally and personally, young Adam Fisk takes the suite of tests and finds that he’s a match for the Affinity known as Tau. It’s utopian—at first. All his problems seem to sort themselves out as he becomes part of a global network of people dedicated to helping one another—to helping him.
But as the different Affinities discover their strength, they begin to 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 . . .

Product Details

• Title: The Affinities
• Author: Robert Wilson
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 302
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781466800779, 9780765332622, 0765332620, 1466800771
• Resource ID: LLS:9781466800779
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-12-02T12:13:00Z

About Robert Wilson

Born in Moncton, NB, Bob was educated at United Baptist Bible Training School (now Atlantic Baptist University) in Moncton and transfered to Gordon College. In 1964 he returned to UBBTS to teach for one year before going to the University of Guelph from which he holds the first MA degree. In 1965 he married Myrna Secord and they have two children, Jonathan and Rachel, both of whom are now married. At Guelph he studied under W. Stanford Reid in the area of Nineteenth Century British Evangelicalism. After teaching one year at the University of Guelph, he returned to Moncton to become Dean of Arts and Assistant Professor of History in 1961. Twenty years later he resigned as Academic Dean and Professor of History to become Professor of Church History at Acadia Divinity College, succeeding Dr. Jarold K. Zeman. During the years in Atlantic Canada, Bob has been very involved in the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and served as its President in 1998-9. He continues to serve on the Atlantic Baptist Historical Committee and the Administrative Committee of the Acadia Center of Baptist and Anabaptist Studies. He continues to preach and lecture on a variety of historical, devotional and practical ministry topics at churches, conferences and retreats.