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Monk and Robot: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and a Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Series: Monk & Robot

by Chambers, Becky

EAN: 9781250386335

$18.99

Condition: New

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Category: Fiction | Science Fiction | Action & Adventure

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publication date: May 6, 2025

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Becky Chambers' two award-winning, bestselling, beloved, and uplifting Monk and Robot stories, A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, together in trade paperback for the first time!

Becky Chambers' delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future.

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

This book includes both A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy in paperback for the first time!

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When I grabbed this pair of novellas (A Psalm for the Wild Built and Prayer for the Crown Shy - combined into a single volume) off the shelf, I wasn't sure what I was in for and could not have been prepared for the book that would rock my world. A story of Sibling Dex and their journey to find what they need to be fulfilled and their unwitting encounter with Splendid Speckled Mosscap, the robots chosen representative to check in on humanity and their travels together. I wasn't expecting a radically hopeful take on what a future could look like where we put people first and decide to save the planet. And having had a glimpse of that world, I have revisited it no less than a dozen times and I revisit every time I need to remind myself that the future isn't set and that radical hope is resistance.