After A Psalm for the Wild-Built comes this tale of hope and acceptance in the second volume of the USA Today bestselling Monk and Robot series.

Which kind of ends up leading to this situation where, say, people with mental health issues have just sorta been … written out of our vision of an optimistic future? In the hope that AI will develop sentience, and knowing we might not know when and if they do, I've begun adding 'please' and 'thank you' when asking Alexa to do something. There might be some audience overlap for folks exhausted by epic fantasy, but that doesn’t make them good comps. I’ve used the word utopian a lot, but I guess the setting would more accurately be described as aspirational.All in all, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a more unique, but still dazzling novella that only slightly disappoints. Sibling Dex and robot Mosscap have left the woods for human places so that Mosscap can ask his one burning question: what do humans need? These are the best parts of the book, and there are a few instances where the world and the characters align and say something profound about the human condition. Becky Chambers nails the experience of moving through wilderness and its ability to heighten the comforts of civilization.

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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Becky Chambers was raised in California as the progeny of an astrobiology educator, an aerospace engineer, and an Apollo-era rocket scientist.They leaned their head back, letting the water run through their hair as they stared at the sky above the trees.