Reviews and Comments

Found this one under a pile and pushed on to finish it. It's a bit less structured than I imagined, and doesn't really go much into the mechanics of why screws work better than other devices. I finished wanting more from this short book.

Chambers is easy to read, and fortunately this one is not as Californian as some of her prior work. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is short, and clearly just the first episode in the Monk and Robot series.

I do wish that she had an editor, though, or at least a proofreader. Sometimes Chambers uses a word which I can only conclude is a malapropism—In this book, "erstwhile" (where I think she meant "estimable"? It's hard to know). Also one sentence which uses "they" pronouns for Mosscap, who is referred to throughout with "it".

This was fine. I didn't really get emotionally attached to any of the characters, and the premise was getting a bit worn by the end.

This got buried, I have no idea which pile it's in, haven't seen it for months.

Mum stuck this translation of a short Japanese story in her latest care package. That's all I know.