![]() ![]() It is only because of Mosscap’s presence that the act is reframed as anything other than commonplace.īecause, whereas A Psalm for the Wild-Built was preoccupied with Dex’s journey into the unknown wilds of Panga’s reforested wilderness, Crown-Shy is its inversion. ![]() Dex doesn’t go out of their way to eat meat, but is not a strict vegetarian, and in fact they eat meat several times in this book alone (in meals enticingly rendered by Chambers’s concise descriptions). There is likewise no moralizing against it on the part of the narrative. It isn’t malicious or even unexpected: we are told early on that we are going fishing, an activity synonymous with humanity since time prehistoric. For the first time in this exceptionally gentle series, we observe a living thing die at the hands of another. It is a moment in a chain of moments, vignetted together as our leading players-the tea monk Sibling Dex and their robot companion Mosscap-wind their way across the landscape of the terraformed moon Panga.Īnd yet the moment is striking. Without giving too much away, it’s a moment as profound as it is utterly mundane. ![]() There is a moment in Becky Chambers’s A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, the latest instalment of her Monk and Robot novella series, when our protagonists preside over the death of a fish. ![]()
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