![]() ![]() Chambers uses the moon of Panga and its inhabitants, biological and artificial, to explore not only Earth’s past, but also a future we would be lucky to achieve.Ĭhambers also explores some of the “big questions” that we all ponder. In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers, the award-winning author of The Wayfarers series, returns with a quiet novella that is quirky, thoughtful, and hopeful. But nothing in their previous experiences prepares Dex for when a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, emerges from the forest, walks into their campsite and asks “What do people need?” ![]() In a short time Dex becomes the best tea-monk in Panga. They make the necessary arrangements and begin learning, self-taught, how to provide tea-service. ![]() Sibling Dex, a monk at the Meadow Den Monastery, chooses to pursue providing tea-service to the people of the surrounding villages. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. ![]()
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