This was the perfect book for me to read at the moment. I try not to discuss myself much on this site, focusing on reviewing the work rather than telling you all my life story… but this is noteworthy as it may influence your decision on reading it. I've been struggling recently, I've been fighting with depression and overall just feel like an anxious mess. This book is without a doubt the single most relaxing read I've ever had. It's a book about a monk who serves tea, taking a trip just to hear...

‘ It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it.’In a hectic world crammed with expectations and people’s value being conflated with labor and profit, the old existential questions of purpose and meaning are never far from our minds. Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (the Wayfarers series) is so pleasant and just nice as it probes these tough questions in a near-utopian sci-fi setting, with the act of reading it feeling very much like the comforting cups of tea that figure promine...

3.75In short, it is The Midnight Library in a sci-fi world. The writing style and the story just feel like a cup of tea, warm and cozy. It’s the charm of the small comfort indeed.- -“The urge to leave began with the idea of cricket song.”

2.5ish stars. There are some lovely, quasi-profound, philosophical ideologies about the existence and purpose of humanity here, but the book itself seems like a vehicle used an excuse to spout them off more than a justifiable story. The actual account of the Tea Monk and the robot seems superfluous. Not much actually happens. It just so happens that the perfect human to embody “enlightened but unfulfilled” meets the perfect robot to represent the antipodal perspective of one who seeks enlightenm...

Kinda the future vibe of my dreams, TBH-------------------------ALL THE BEST SFF AUTHORS WRITING FOR TOR.COM IS THE REASON I'M ALIVEAlso, solarpunk

https://www.wired.com/story/is-becky-...“Everybody needs a cup of tea sometimes.”This book was exactly what I needed, exactly when I needed it. I should make a new shelf called “better than therapy” for books like this one. I was reading it on the balcony (I just installed fairy lights, it’s super cozy), breathing in the cool summer evening air and drinking a glass of wine and I told my husband that I wanted to go live in Becky Chambers’ head. He said “ew”, but what I meant was that I love the w...

Once upon a time in Panga there was industry and robotics and technology until one day the robots became sentient and walked away. The people left behind have rebuilt their society very differently. The first character we meet is Sibling Dex, a Tea Monk, who travels between rural villages bringing special teas and spiritual comfort. Dex meets a robot called Mosscap and they travel together and talk.That's it really. A book based on a clever idea with fantastic world building, brilliant character...

Becky Chambers's writing feels like home to me. Comforting and inclusive while making you rethink what you know through sci-fi.The main character is non-binary and a monk so they were referred as "Sibling" (instead of "Brother" or "Sister") which was great.If you're intrigue to read a "slice of life" with a monk and a robot trying to make sense of their lives... read this!I already can't wait to read book 2!

If this is not your first Becky Chambers book, you know what to expect. Ever since her first novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet she’s been writing what I can only call “comfort science fiction/ cozypunk”, showing the worlds where you would really love to live, the worlds that learned from mistakes of the past and moved on in better directions, the worlds mostly inhabited by genuinely nice people, with everything having a feeling of an unironically happy hippie commune, complete with ear...

This is a wonderful little story about purpose, identity, nature, and productivity. It reads like a warm hug, same as all of Becky Chambers work. She provides hope in the bleak outlook that most SFF has and I appreciate her for that.

Becky Chambers remains unmatched. I adored this.

First lines in fiction are arguably the most important thing to grab a reader's attention. Sometimes, a book takes hold of you from the very first sentence on. A Psalm for the Wild-Built did not seize me by the opening of the story, but even earlier than that. It's Becky Chambers' dedication that reeled me in: 'For anybody who could use a break', it reads. The sheer tenderness of that sentence and the open vulnerability that it carried made me want to read this book more than anything else. I gu...

I know already that writing this review is going to be extremely difficult! I loved this book with every fibre of my being, and even over a week later I am not sure I am going to be able to put that feeling into words.This book was absolutely stunning, heart-wrenching, thought-provoking and impactful in every way! I did not expect when starting a 160-page novella to be finishing it reassessing so many things about life as well as deep intricacies of society. And that was my favourite thing about...

Another comfy sci-fi from Becky Chambers. For those who haven't read Chambers, she writes sci-fi minus evil empires, scary aliens, and space battles, where peace, love and happiness prevail. Sometimes as in The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit the concept it works really well. Other times, the saccharine level is just too high. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is more the latter than the former.In Wild-Built, some hundred years ago robots became self aware. Human...

This book was a fantastic read! The somewhat prologue was confusing for me and I almost dread reading the book until I started chapter 1 and liked Dex a lot! I loved following Dex's view and seeing them stumbled through their first day on the tea service. (The use of they/them/their for Dex immediately made sense to me because I just learned about Gender Non-Binary from my last read, The Love Square). This story definitely reeled me in, as soon as I read the first person who came with a problem

A gentle, meditative sort of story about a monk and a robot becoming friends, and about purpose and life and how cultures meet. As ever with Becky Chambers, it's deceptively uneventful -not much happens, plotwise, but there's a beautifully developed world and a lot to think about. Soothing.

3.0 StarsThis was a typical cute and optimistic story that I have come to expect from Becky Chambers. While this is technically science fiction, it read more like a fantastical fable. The narrative was quaint and sometimes funny, but lacking plot. I generally enjoyed this one even though I have a preference for darker stories. This will be a must read for any mega fans of this author.Disclaimer I received a copy of this book from the publisher.

A Psalm for the Wild-Builtby Becky ChambersMacmillan-Tor/ForgeI want to thank the publisher and NetGalley for letting me read this delightful book! Rex and Mosscap make a great duo! This is an unusual world where one day technology awoke and wanted to be free from mankind. Even more unbelievable to me is that mankind didn't want to hold them against their will. So all robots left and was never seen again. We then turn to a Tea Monk, Sibling Rex. He has a drive to do more with his life so he want...

I'm sad to say that, despite how excited I was to finally read my first Becky Chambers title ever, this was a massive let-down. I found the plot and world development terribly lacking, and I didn't enjoy Sibling Dex's character at all. I loved the casual queerness and the idea of this future where humans actually start getting it right and working to preserve their surroundings, and I loved Mosscap's character, but all in all, I believe this novella would have worked out far better as a full-len...

4.5 starsA tea monk encounters a robot. The first robot checking in with humans in generations, ever since the robots gained consciousness and freedom. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a lovely, lush, hopeful piece of science fiction set in a world that is maintained sustainably in ways our own is not. It's deeply philosophical about the meaning of life, purpose, and death. It's inclusive in a way that is built easily into the world. Our tea monk is a-gender and thus referred to as "sibling" rather...