The Monk & Robot Series - Book 1
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“A joyful experience and, as with all of Chambers’s books, I was left with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.”
New Scientist
A July 2021 LibraryReads Pick
Finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella
A USA Today bestseller
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
Winner of Hugo Award - Winner, 2022
Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
Winner of Hugo Award - Winner, 2022
Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
Winner of Hugo Award - Winner, 2022
Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."-AudioFile Magazine
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner 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?
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