A Psalm for the Wild-Built

par Becky Chambers

Hardcover, 160 pages

Publié 13 juillet 2021 par Tordotcom.

ISBN :: 978-1-250-23621-0

(25 critiques)

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.

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. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered.

But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.

They're going to need to ask it a lot.

Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

3 editions

Chad Nelson reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

Cozy and hopeful

5 étoiles

This book found me at just the right time and I loved it and really want more

bookafnd reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

solarpunk road trip?

5 étoiles

Becky Chamber's works are rare among science fiction stories because instead of action-adventure plots they're about people talking about what it means to be alive.

The first couple of chapters felt like the plot was jumping around a hell of a lot, because they're really just backstory/preamble for the actual story

It's good that there will be a sequel because I do want to know what both Mosscap and Dex will do next

bbbhltz reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

A fine start

4 étoiles

Well-written. Funny. Cute, even. The characters are wonderful, and I am looking forward to their continuing adventures.

Kube reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

Oh gosh this tackles the big stuff

5 étoiles

A gorgeous poke at a plausible, palpable, provocative world. Also: a timely addition to the "sad-happy speculative fiction" corpus.

Martin Kopischke reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

Humane sci-fi. With robots.

4 étoiles

There isn’t much I can add to loppear@bookwyrm.social’s review; once again, Chambers is simply wonderful. Here, she is running with the wholesome if slightly insipid promise for the future Solarpunk holds to explore human condition and (not entirely incidentally, I suspect) thumb a very long nose at the whole “machine uprising” crowd. I don’t know how someone can be so relentlessly, melancholically upbeat, but I do know I had to finish this before work, and that I had a little happy cry when I did.

loppear reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

inner calm out there

4 étoiles

A solarpunk world that has learned to be content and self-limiting, an unsatisfied uncertain monk who offers an ear to people's worries and exhaustions, on a charming journey seeking purpose beyond needs. A wholesome meditation on a positive future.

joachim reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

Nice and short

4 étoiles

A monk looking for a purpose meets a robot. They both have much to discover from each other, as they tackle the meaning of life.

Short as it is, this book might serve as an introduction to a larger body of work set in the same world, but it also works well alone from other expectations.

I'd love to see more of that world, a sort of solarpunk utopia where suffering, or illness, or poverty, seem very foreign. The robot wants to check in on humanity, to ask them what they need, what the population of wild robots could help them with. What are the need of a society that's got everything? I'm curious. I want to read more.