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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot 2)

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An AI on the other hand, would be able to communicate with us in whatever language we speak and it has access to. Dex locked down everything with wheels, Mosscap unfolded the kitchen on the wagon’s exterior, Dex fetched chairs, Mosscap started the fire. Hugo Award–winning author Becky Chambers begins a new series with this delightful and quietly philosophical novella that presents a hopeful glimpse into a future where humanity actually does the right thing.

I used this series to get me out of a reading slump as they’re the perfect length and such a beautiful and hopeful read. Written with all of Chambers' characteristic nuance and careful thought, this is a cozy, wholesome meditation on the nature of consciousness and its place in the natural world. This book picks up pretty much where the first one left off, with Dex and Mosscap heading to civilization.

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? The people are nearly always friendly and Mosscap spends his time asking them what they need which usually turns out to be very minor.

Psalm is a series of strung-together scenes leading to the specific end point at the abandoned hermitage. I read the first of her Monk and Robot book while very ill over Christmas last year and have been hooked ever since.The dedication for the first book states, “ For anybody who could use a break,” and for this book it reads, “ For anybody who doesn’t know where they’re going.

There were no creeping branches catching their clothing, no fallen trees posing problems, no unlabeled forks that made them stop and stare with dread. In Prayer, because Sibling Dex and Mosscap are visiting villages mostly at random, the story is more a collection of incidents.

The gentle touch with which Chambers handles her material makes the book's loftiest philosophical aims feel grounded. The robots left the factories and walked out into the wilderness to stop humankind from imploding but made the ‘Parting Promise’ as they left. The moment Dex had regained satellite signal after climbing back down the mountain, they’d sent messages to the village councils, the Wildguard, the monastic network, and every other contact they could think of. Uh, it’s a formal gathering where all the monks come together at the All-Six for a few days for a…” Dex gestured vaguely.

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