People are very excited to meet a robot, for the most part, and through Mosscap experiencing them for the first time, we also get to see what this society looks like, and Dex gets a taste of some new perspective. It's kind of like a commune manifesto plus a couple hours spent on the Treehugger blog, and the earnest optimism made me a bit cranky.

I’ve used the word utopian a lot, but I guess the setting would more accurately be described as aspirational. But the moment they pedaled their wagon out of the wilderness and onto the highway, Dex felt the indescribable relief of switching back to the flip side of that equation—the side in which humans had made existence as comfortable as technology would sustainably allow. is said on an uplift, her voice rising a couple octaves and sounding almost like fake joy which always bothers me a bit.The dedication for the first book states, “ For anybody who could use a break,” and for this book it reads, “ For anybody who doesn’t know where they’re going. Hugo Award–winning author Becky Chambers begins a new series with this delightful and quietly philosophical novella that presents a hopeful glimpse into a future where humanity actually does the right thing. I adored A Psalm for the Wild-Built, which I read in a fog of killer headache and fever the day after my booster shot last November.

Dried salt and accumulated trail dust veritably peeled from their skin, running in grubby spirals into the greywater catch.If you are someone who thinks humans are better than goats and/or would like an optimistic view of the future of humanity, you might very well get along better with this book than I did. We ask all users help us create a welcoming environment by reporting posts/comments that do not follow the subreddit rules.