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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    By Becky Chambers

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    Winner of the Hugo Award!

    In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot 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's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 13, 2021
    ISBN9781250236227
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    Becky Chambers

    Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which currently includes The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her most recent work is To Be Taught, If Fortunate, a standalone novella. Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she’s now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.  

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      This book feels like a warm cup of tea ?
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      FINALLY a book about what's really important in life - getting a little drink as a treat. I say this with full sincerity.
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      This is the sweetest think I've ever read. The world building Chambers manages to do in just 140 pages is incredible. It feels like a whole world that is so expansive. I loved Dex and their very human thoughts and need to find purpose. Mosscap will live in my heart forever. I loved this so much.
    • 5/5
      Excellent! Full of philosophy and opportunities to meditate on purpose, what life is, why we leave our mark.

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