A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Pleasantly weird. This is cosy SciFi, focusing on a monk going around serving tea to help people overcome their troubles and his encounters with a robot. In this world Robots have been emancipated from humans and gone to live in the wild, eschewing all contact with humanity. When our monk wanders off trail he has the first encounter with robots for centuries.

The worlds colliding idea is at the core of this, cultural divides and cultural understanding providing key motifs. Becky Chambers writes some of the most upbeat and uplifting Scifi out there - far more positive in outlook than anything you usually encounter in the genre. Always a pleasant read and break from the darker stories I usually frequent!