A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book

"Humans screw a lot of things up. If you need a break from that, read A Psalm for the Wild-Built. You’ll enter a world (not our world) where people have managed to dial things back from the brink. Centuries earlier, humans and robots agreed to part ways, and now the humans are living in harmony with nature – existing on clean energy, eschewing consumerism and working with their hands. But as good as things are, our protagonist, Dex, just isn’t content. The novel opens with the traveling monk abandoning a seemingly good life to seek out cricket song, long vanished in this world – which is when things start to get really interesting. Because that split between robots and humans? It ends when Dex runs into a chipper robot called Splendid Speckled Mosscap."