A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Short but sweet, I positively luxuriated in every sentence. Becky’s writing is so compellingly beautiful, somehow real yet fantastic at the same time, with a seemingly endless ability to latch on to ones Humanity and tug it in unexpected and thought-provoking directions. For all that I’m really going to miss the wayfarers, this peek into a new world with so much history, kindness and love was positively enthralling.

Astonishing.
On a human settled moon, one day, the robots woke up and walked off. The humans learned to exist better with their environment without their mechanical indentured labour.
This is a story set some time after that event. It is about a tea monk whose restlessness leads him to a friendship with one of the robots. And that's it. Doesn't sound like much, no? There's no great battles or moments of grand scale drama here. Just a totally enthralling tale about a person's journey. On a moon. Where the robots have woken up.
It is a short book, hence me finishing it about 2 hours after starting it, but a very good one.
After the triumph of the Wayfarers books, Becky Chambers has created something very different but equally as compelling.
A delight to recommend and I can't wait for the continuation of this.