#Monk and Robot

[kiwibee]

🌿🌾 Dex and Mosscap - from A Psalm for the Wild Built

[turquoisemagpie]

A Psalm for the Wild-Built.

(I think we need something summery and positive. I’d highly recommend Becky Chamber’s Monk & Robot series of books; a solarpunk dream with a healthy mix of philosophical journeys.)

[rata-novus]

i don't think ive ever wanted to live in a fictional world more than post-parting-promise panga. a large sustainable city with outlying cozy villages. everyones needs are met. capitalism has been dismantled. AND they still have the internet???? pls i want to go there

[nitewrighter]

[torpublishinggroup]

Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. Now, one returns to ask a tea monk: “What do people need?” They don’t have an answer yet, but together, they’re determined to find one. In a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune

It’s the spring of 1995, and Nate Cartwright has lost everything. Retreating to his family’s cabin in Oregon after hitting rock bottom, he expects solitude—until he finds a man named Alex and a girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. And Artemis is anything but ordinary. As cultists and agents close in, Nate must choose: stay lost in the past or fight for a future he never saw coming.

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

After losing her job and fiancé, Shell Pine moves back home and starts working at a flower shop in the mall. The flowers lift her spirits—and so does Neve, the alluring and secretive shop manager. But something sinister grows behind the scenes: a sentient orchid with a taste for manipulation, a hunger that can’t be sated, and a plan that could uproot them all.

But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her? Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides. Now her protégée, Dália, must tend to Anatema’s memory drawers and uncover the truth behind her mentor’s execution. But there’s one problem: Anatema can’t resist a beautiful woman, and she eventually devours every single bride that crosses her path.

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s university—and to her former girlfriend, Pleiti, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. As Mossa enlists Pleiti’s help, the two embark on a twisting path where the future of life on Earth—and their future together—may hang in the balance.

The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch

Will they conjure love or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out.

Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing—or falling for—each other.

Out on August 26, 2025!

Sandymancer by David Edison

Caralee Vinnet lives in a world of dust, where water is rare and the elements are tightly controlled. She has a secret: magic in her bones that lets her command the sand. But when she uses it, she summons the god-king who broke the world 800 years ago…and who’s now wearing her best friend’s body. Caralee will risk everything to save her friend—if her new companion doesn’t kill her first. Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster struck. In what became known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people died in bizarre, improbable ways. Vera, a former statistics professor, lost everything that day. But when a special agent arrives, investigating an impossibly lucky casino, Vera realizes she may be the only one who can stop another deadly improbability from happening again.

Coming August 12, 2025!

Not enough books? Check out our other list!

[voidingintotheshout]

“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live” --Excerpt From: Becky Chambers' “A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”

[zephzapzop]

Been dreaming a lot about Sibling Dex’s ox bike tea wagon and I just realized that actually I can probably become a certified light electric vehicle technician and expand my knowledge about current technology and its capabilities and then tweak it for about 20 years and probably make that ox bike tea wagon.

Nothing is stopping me but my disbelief in my own abilities, and like, do you know how wrong that bitch is about so many things on a daily basis? /affectionate I’m just saying I oughta keep an open mind on that front.

[nzbookwyrm]

Omnibus edition coming in May 2025

[layaart]

mosscap psalmforthewildbuilt and levi scavengersreign, they would be friends

[autumn-opossum]

I had a dream that A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers was adapted into a 2D animated movie and now I need it to exist so badly

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Christopher “Kit” Herondale- The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare 

Benjamin “Benji” Woodside- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Dex- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 

Tyrannus Basilton “Baz” Grimm-Pitch- Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 

[kiwibee]

the monk’s tea wagon

(how I think Dex’s cart looks like from A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers)

[hip-to-my-jive]

Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot books touch on this in a really nice way. They're nice sci-fi for people who don't need an explosion every chapter. (Not that there's anything wrong with explosions.) As books go they're pretty sedate and "thinky."

a lot of media assumes robots would be immortal but i think its a lot more interesting to explore robots dealing with their parts wearing down and battery life shortening and all the horrible little failings that come with being a complicated machine. sure they can replace parts but you'd assume you cant completely ship of theseus them, or it'd have pretty big rammifications on their sense of identity. idk. give me robots with distinct, unique signs of aging. as a treat.

[a-ramblinrose]

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

[soyboyanarchy]

I need someone with art skills to draw what the full wagon from “a psalm for the wild built” looks like. I yearn to see it

[torpublishinggroup]

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Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. Now, one returns to ask a tea monk: “What do people need?” They don’t have an answer yet, but together, they’re determined to find one.

In a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune

It’s the spring of 1995, and Nate Cartwright has lost everything. Retreating to his family’s cabin in Oregon after hitting rock bottom, he expects solitude—until he finds a man named Alex and a girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. And Artemis is anything but ordinary. As cultists and agents close in, Nate must choose: stay lost in the past or fight for a future he never saw coming.