My only nitpick is that the white outline around parts of the wagon make it look poorly cropped from a white background and/or less “organic” than the other parts that make up this whole.ĭex is dissatisfied with their life, but can’t figure out why. I love the depictions of Dex and Mosscap, and the road they travel. This is the kind of illustrated cover I wanted to see more of in the world. And they ask: What now? And they take your hand, make you a cup of tea, and share a comfortable silence with you.Bonus Factors: Non-binary Representation, Robots, A Utopia That’s Actually a Utopia They look out at the natural world and they say: This is it. And it’s changed me – just reading it and knowing it and feeling the need for it so deeply and unshakingly.) Anyway, kindness punk… that’s what these novellas are.
I read that term used to describe Everything Everywhere All at Once and I fully agree. I don’t know that I see Monk & Robot as hopepunk, per se. “Hopepunk” has been coined! That’s a thing now! And Chambers has been assigned some laureate role in it. It’s the story of companionship and the desire to accept our nature and nature itself.Ī lot – or maybe not “a lot” but “some” – has been written in the last couple of years or so about hopepunk. Sibling Dex and Mosscap experience both interior and exterior lives of humans and humanity through one another and with one another. I would warn you… compared to all that it’s kind of… boring? It has none of the things that make for compelling, gripping, thrilling entertainment. Maybe something HBO Max can pick up for prestige drama. Maybe all sorts of things that would make for a good movie or miniseries. Maybe something with thrills and adventure. The synopsis sounds like something that it isn’t… something about robots. Therein, Dex encounters Mosscap, a robot with a mission to find humans and ask a simple, single question: What do you need? Sibling Dex is a tea monk who, in a moment of existential crisis, decides to venture to the wilds where no human has gone since the robots left to do their own thing, separate and apart from the humans that created them. These two novellas – not sure if we can call them a duology just yet, considering I don’t know the plans Chambers and Tor have for the series yet – are exceedingly kind, gentle, and comforting reads. Which aligns with my reviews for my first reads of 2023 that aren’t library/ work-related: Becky Chambers’ Monk & Robot novellas, A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. Thanks for exiting and offering a platform for whatever T H I S is that I need for right now…
First time in years that I’m bothering to review.
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