The Affinities
by Robert Charles Wilson · first published 2015
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After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another -- in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever.
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)” ↗…project management' by Tom DeMarco Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (sequel to the Phoenix Project) Makers by Cory Doctorow Daemon & Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson Zodiac by Neal Stephenson The Blue Ant trilogy (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History) by William Gibson Omnitopia: Dawn by Diane Duane Walkaway by Cory Doctorow…
on “Ask HN: What's some great fiction for founders and entrepreneurs?” ↗Robert Charles Wilson is one of my favorite authors. He has some of the most amazing plot lines I've ever seen in SciFi. The guy is a font of amazing ideas. Reading the reviews on The Affinities (the recommended book on the EFF page), makes it seem like it's not like his other novels. The Spin series is excellent. I can recommend A Bridge of Years, Blind Lake and The Chronoliths.
on “What Is EFF Reading? Books, Movies, and TV Shows of 2015” ↗…anthropocentrism) scattered through an entertaining semi-hard sci-fi space opera. - La Zone du Dehors, by Alain Damasio. A spiritual sequel to 1984. - Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (finally!) - The Affinities, by Robert Charles Wilson - La Horde du Contrevent, by Alain Damasio (in progress). A fantastic, ontologic, poetic story about the wind. As well as a couple non-fiction: - Surely You're Joking, Mr.…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗In the novel The Affinities, Robert Charles Wilson had a sort of secular religion that grouped similar people together in tight social groups based on a cluster analysis of genetics and personality traits. To be clear, I'm not recommending…
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