A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book

Becky Chambers

Tom Doherty Associates, Jul 12, 2022 - Fiction - 160 pages

“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF.

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home.

They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.

Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?

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LibraryThing Review

User Review  - jennybeast - LibraryThing

I think what I love about Becky Chamber's work is that she manages to distil the noise of our everyday life down into essential questions (the essential question) and then present it in a setting ...

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

Tea monk Sibling Dex and robot Splendid Speckled Mosscap are back for the quietly brilliant second installment in Hugo Award winner Chambers’s Monk and Robot novella series (after A Psalm for the Wild ...

About the author

Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others.

Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she’s now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book; Volume 2 of Monk & Robot
• Author: Becky Chambers
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2022
• ISBN: 125023624X, 9781250236241
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic