@booklet {11823, title = {A Prayer for the Crown-Shy}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {152 pp.}, publisher = {Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Second volume of two following 2021 Chambers, A Psalm for the Weild-Built. In this volume, Dex and Mosscap travel across Panga visiting people trying to get the answer to the question the robots have of what do humans need and how can the robots help. They first visit a prosperous woodland village, then an equally prosperous riverside village, a small oceanside settlement that is strongly against technology, and the monk\’s family, before heading toward their intended last stop, the City. But they take a detour during which they consider what they have learned. One practice appears to be the standard means of exchange, the Peb or Digital Pebble which are given by one person for a service rendered and then that person gives it to another for their service, all recorded on pocket computers. Dex explains that \“the point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone\’s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community\” (38).

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1250236234 }, author = {Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985)} } @booklet {11782, title = {A Psalm for the Wild-Built}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {149 pp.}, publisher = {Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

First of two volumes that take place on Panga, an Earth-like planet that had been badly damaged by technology, symbolized by factories run mostly by robots, but had recovered after the awakening od the robots, who abandoned the factories and moved into the wilderness, where they lived completely separate from humans. In this volume, the protagonist, Sibling Dex, a young gay man who becomes a monk, realizes that he has to change his life and becomes a tea monk, someone who wanders the planet offering tea and listening to peoples\’ problems. After becoming successful, he decides to enter the wilderness, where he meets a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, and they develop a relationship. See also 2022 Chambers,\ A Prayer for the Crown Shy.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1250236210 978-1250236234 }, author = {Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985)} } @booklet {10388, title = {The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015.\ 

}, month = {2014}, publisher = {Author}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger\’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985)} }