I had originally feared that it would make me despair over the state of the world, but ultimately it is a very hopeful book.
Together they journey towards the ruins of a monastery, and during that journey they discuss a great many things regarding identity, gender, meaning of life, humanity, humanity’s relationship with technology, so many things that are incredibly relevant to life today. Humans and Robots have not interacted for hundreds of years, until Dex and Mosscap meet. Mosscap, our Robot, has been tasked by the society of robots in which he lives to go out into the world to learn more about it. Dex, our tea monk, has left their home to go out into the world and offer guidance the villages around their abbey by offering a cup of tea and an ear to listen to their tales of their lives. This is a cozy, meditative book that just happens to involve a robot and a world that is technically post-apocalyptic, but is so far past that apocalypse that it feels disingenuous to call it that.Ī lot can be learned about yourself and the world around you while on a long journey and the occasional cup of tea. The BISAC codes for this book are wildly misleading – action & adventure and post-apocalyptic? I mean, yes, technically, but this book does not fit into the mold one would normally think of with those two categories. You are allowed to just live.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. 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. The robot cannot go back until the question of “what do people need?” is answered.īut the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
Normally I am adverse to books that are overly hyped, but I realized that this was the first book that was not overly hyped, but overly recommended, and by people I trust, so I figured it was time to read it.
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