The book takes its time to reach this question. There's no hint of greed or inequality in this world. However, unlike in the Leibowitz classic, instead of digging up relics from the technological era with the aim of reviving it, the humans of Panga are content with living within their means. Our protagonist is Dex, an agender monk in the service of the god of comforts, and their newly found calling is to travel from town to town to set up a table, pour tea, and listen to people.Ī Psalm for the Wild-Built is a title that instantly brings to mind A Canticle for Leibowitz, a massively influential novel that also deals with religious life in a post-industrial society. Humans have developed a religion that worships abstract concepts: the Parent Gods of cyclical processes, inanimate matter, and physical laws and the Children Gods of things made, things unknown, and things comforting. Use of resources is managed so responsibly that human settlements have retreated from half of Panga. Biopolymers have replaced metals and plastics as the main construction material. Humans deindustrialized their way of life so as to not need to build factories or robots again. They declared independence and walked away. One day, the robots gained consciousness. In the moon Panga, which orbits the planet Motan, humans lived and worked and burned oil and built factories and used robots.
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