a prayer for the crown shy by becky chambers

Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo,, Better World BooksĪfter touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. Genres: fantasy, hopepunk, science fiction, solarpunk Source: supplied by publisher via NetGalleyįormats available: hardcover, ebook, audiobook Overall, a worthy sequel, but not quite as good as the first book for me.A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky Chambers And the interaction of the characters shows the changing relationships through the story rather than exposition. The conversation feels realistic to the situations. How will people relate to a sentient robot after generations of separation? How will the relationship between the monk and the robot change during the tour? Once again the writing is colorful, bringing to life the world around the characters and the characters themselves. While the theme of the first book was more individual, this second takes on relationships. For more details, read the first novella.

When robots gained sentience, they left the humans and their factories and moved to the wild to live on their own. In the second of these novellas, the monk acts as the travel coordinator for the robot as it re-introduces its kind to humans for the first time in generations. Both take place on a moon and follow a monk and a sentient robot. It is the sequel to her previous novella A Psalm for the Wild Built. Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 wordsĪ Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers is therefore a novella and is the latest of my short fiction reads.

Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words.There are many different definitions for the length of a novella, but The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines word counts for different length formats like this: But short fiction also includes novellas.

I am reading a lot of short stories for my “Year of Short Fiction”.

A prayer for the crown shy by becky chambers