![]() ![]() ![]() Nowadays the world is a much better place, craftsmen’s organizations have replaced the factories, and oil consumption is a thing of the past that no one misses at all. ![]() Moreover, they gave up a large part of their world and ceded it all to their former servants, adopting a very strict environmentalism as well. Well, the human population rather surprised itself by honoring the robots’ wishes. So they told the humans they were leaving the cities and going out into Panga’s vast wilderness areas, thank you very much, and they hoped the humans could manage without their presence. (And by “robots,” I mean mechanical, more or less humanoid constructs with gears and pistons on a an Asimovian model.) The day finally came when the increasingly complex robots finally achieved sentience and decided they’d had enough. Up until two centuries earlier, Panga had been mired in the Factory Age, an oil-consuming industrial society that depended on robots to provide most of the labor. Becky Chambers recently wrapped up her hugely popular “Wayfarers” science fiction series, and this is the first in an entirely new and very different series, set sometime in the far future on an Earth-like planetoid that orbits another much larger world. ![]()
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