There is likewise no moralizing against it on the part of the narrative. It isn’t malicious or even unexpected: we are told early on that we are going fishing, an activity synonymous with humanity since time prehistoric. For the first time in this exceptionally gentle series, we observe a living thing die at the hands of another. It is a moment in a chain of moments, vignetted together as our leading players-the tea monk Sibling Dex and their robot companion Mosscap-wind their way across the landscape of the terraformed moon Panga.Īnd yet the moment is striking. Without giving too much away, it’s a moment as profound as it is utterly mundane. There is a moment in Becky Chambers’s A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, the latest instalment of her Monk and Robot novella series, when our protagonists preside over the death of a fish.
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