Because when robots gained consciousness, humanity ended up releasing all robots into the wild and they haven’t been seen since. Along the way, they eventually stumble across a robot which upsets not only Dex’s life but could also mean change for humanity as such. So Sibling Dex decides to just pack up their stuff and become a travelling tea monk. Family, friends, a lovely home in the city… but one day, they get a longing for the sound of crickets that just won’t let up. They don’t quite know what it is or why, because technically they have everything they could want. The robot cannot go back until the question of “what do people need?” is answered.īut the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.īecky Chambers’s new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?ĭex is a monk whose life is missing something. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers’s delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. Opening line: If you ask six different monks the question of which godly domain robot consciousness belongs to, you’ll get seven different answers.
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