![]() ![]() ![]() Humanity has built up robots so completely that it has become clear that they are sentient and deserving of legal personhood, and their foundational role in our chain of production is one that robs them of their freedom. This is the task Becky Chambers takes up in her new novella, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a new series from Tor Books called “Monk and Robot.” The premise brings us centuries in the future and past a few key lessons in the course of human technology and social relationships. What’s hard is to think bigger and beyond: to envision a way that it could be different, to inhabit possibilities, and to even rediscover what the struggle of life would be when the obvious causes of our ills have been defeated. The inspiration is all around us, the logical conclusion of the visible paths forward. ![]() It’s easy to string together a dystopian futurescape, complete with collapsing climate, authoritarian and disparate political enemies, and technology that crushes us with its stifling uniformity. ![]()
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