The Monk & Robot series is set in the world we would like to live in after the world we live in now collapses and recovers. We have gotten a few references to the dystopian past but the focus is on the Here and Now, with Dex on his journey to find himself and Mosscap trying to find out what humans need.
Funny question to ask, since it appears that robots took themselves out of the picture when things got very bad and they decided they were part of the problem. Humans winnowed themselves and muddled through, and have now achieved the Beloved Community (it is not referenced as such, but see Josiah Royce or Martin Luther King and substitute a future kind-of-pagan religion and we're there). So what Mosscap encounters when he asks this question is that no one is in particular need.The writing and characters are engaging, but these get harder to read as the distance between where we are and where these books are set gets wider. I think it's just plain hard to please people in a time when anything pleasing is a reminder of what can be taken away. Cheers to Becky Chambers for bringing the warmth and light--sad for us if we can't appreciate it.
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