A Psalm for the Wild-Built, 2021
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, sequel, 2022
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Letture a tema: “A psalm for the wild built” di Becky Chambers su solarpunk.it
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Feeling Solarpunk: On Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series
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Chambers’s Monk and Robot duology, the first half of which won a Hugo Award, popularizes solarpunk, a genre that, according to Stacey Balkan, “[advances] a liberatory politics that marshals solar power” and whose characters “inhabit convivial spaces where historically marginalized communities and a nonhuman landscape […] live in economic harmony.”
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built and its 2022 sequel A Prayer for the Crown-Shy center on the relationship between prickly Dex and guileless Mosscap, through which Chambers intermittently drops hints about the Transition. We learn, for example, about their digital currency, pebs, which “[e]arly Pangans used […] for trade” but are now, since everyone has access to basic necessities, given freely as “a way to acknowledge mutual benefit” in society. But these hints are largely beside the point in Chambers’s novellas, breadcrumbs that lead us to the bounty of Dex’s present, who has no clue what they need—let alone their whole species.