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

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Mosscap is a robot who has descended for the original robots built to supplement the human workforce in an era known as The Factory Age. One day last week Alexa caught me off guard with something like, "Thank you for always being so appreciative.

With a pervading sense of optimism and warmth, A Psalm for the Wild-Built inaugurates an exciting series from one of science fiction's brightest stars.

Becky Chambers' new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter? Becky Chambers was raised in California as the progeny of an astrobiology educator, an aerospace engineer, and an Apollo-era rocket scientist. However, while A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a notch below the previous book, it is still a commanding read. The story continues from where the last volume has ended – the Monk (Sibling Dex) and the Robot (Mosscap) travel together and finally visit some places, where there are other people.

In this second book in the series, Sibling Dex the tea monk and Mosscap the robot meander their way through the countryside visiting villages on the way. The robot craned its head, looking at the storage crates tied to the roof of the vehicle that rattled with the internal shifting of yet more things. This book is the type of reading experience I’d recommend to anyone having a hard time, which might be a lot of people at this point.I *get* what this book is trying to achieve, and it didn’t make me feel anything because the tone was so… cloying and saccharine. Also like Psalm, the book has a light, picaresque quality that makes it a swift, accessible read—though that accessibility should not be taken for simplicity because Prayer builds upon, and is still wrangling with, the same philosophical and existential ideas that gave Psalm such depth and resonance. All in all, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a more unique, but still dazzling novella that only slightly disappoints. If this was what passed as manicured, they couldn’t imagine what Mosscap was going to make of, say, a rose garden, or a public park. Mosscap leaned in toward the fire drum, as close as was safe, its glowing eyes fixed on the apparatus within.

Becky Chambers continues to impress with her second book, ‘A Prayer for the Crown-Shy’, in the Monk and Robot series. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A lightly drawn but profound meditation on belief, entropy, and the nature of need and want that once again demonstrates Chambers’s prowess as both a storyteller and a thinker.

Of course I don’t have to,” Mosscap scoffed, clearly finding Dex’s reluctance on this front ridiculous. So that isn’t really a complaint, just a random public confession about my intense feelings for robots. 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.

The people are nearly always friendly and Mosscap spends his time asking them what they need which usually turns out to be very minor. This is the kind of lost some of us might go our whole lives trying to accommodate because it hurts too much to face it head-on, like pulling your own heart out by the roots. Chambers does her magic, of putting her gentle touch right on a raw spot and making it feel better, but I don’t need to know the mechanics, I just enjoy the process.The text did not flow when she said, "THEY did this and THEY did that" It sounded a bit like she was referring to someone else (who was maybe mentioned earlier? Whereas with A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Dex was the student and Mosscap was the teacher, those roles get reversed here as Dex introduces Mosscap to elements of human culture.