Exploring it with the two main characters was a fun and fascinating experience.” -Martha Wells “This was an optimistic vision of a lush, beautiful world that came back from the brink of disaster. Stunning, kind, necessary.” -Sarah Gailey This is a book that, for one night, made me stop asking ‘what am I even for?’ I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. “Chambers’ writing is always tender and healing, but this book has something else braided into it - something more.

“Hugo Award–winning author Becky Chambers begins a new series with this delightful and quietly philosophical novella that presents a hopeful glimpse into a future where humanity actually does the right thing.” - BuzzFeed With a pervading sense of optimism and warmth, A Psalm for the Wild-Built inaugurates an exciting series from one of science fiction's brightest stars.” - Shelf Awareness, starred review “The gentle touch with which Chambers handles her material makes the book's loftiest philosophical aims feel grounded. “ A Psalm for the Wild-Built begins a series that looks optimistic and hopeful, pursuing stories that arise from abundance instead of scarcity, kindness instead of cruelty, and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here.” -NPR Praise for Book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built “As charming and heartwarming as the first.” - Buzzfeed “ hopeful glimpse at what our future might look like.” - Booklist “Thoughtful, with a gentleness that is as encompassing as any action-filled work.” - Library Journal, starred review It’s both truly comforting and endlessly thought-provoking. Quiet and contemplative, empathic and warmhearted, this masterful sequel builds on the themes of the first volume to posit a more sustainable, more caring way of life.

“ lightly drawn but profound meditation on belief, entropy, and the nature of need and want that once again demonstrates Chambers’s prowess as both a storyteller and a thinker. 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.A Goodreads Most Anticipated Summer Read! 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 and Robot series gives us hope for the future. 'Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio.'- AudioFile Magazine

A monk and robot book