A review by bookwoods
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

5.0

 I absolutely devoured one of my most anticipated 2021 releases, Psalm for the Wild-Built, and as I expected, it immediately became a favorite. It’s such a hopeful and beautiful story set on a moon where people realized their mistakes before it was too late and turned things around by creating a truly sustainable society. Becky Chambers has fitted so many joyous things into just 150 pages: robots that gained consciousness and decided to retreat to the wilderness and cut all ties with humans, vivid nature descriptions, ponderings on the meaning of life, characters that use they/them pronouns and a unique religion featuring tea ceremonies. We desperately need more positive science fiction like this - I don’t always want to read about futures full of doom and gloom.