The Affinities

In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity 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, and behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life.

Young Adam Fisk takes the suite of tests to see if he qualifies for any of the Affinities and finds that he...