Their plans quickly go awry when they are approached by Mosscap, an inquisitive robot elected by its fellows to make first contact with humanity and find the answer to the question: what do humans need? Written with all of Chambers’ characteristic nuance and careful thought, this is a cozy, wholesome meditation on the nature of consciousness and its place in the natural world. Seeking solitude, they venture into the protected wilderness zone, where no human has set foot in centuries. When Sibling Dex, a tea monk, leaves The City, Panga’s only metropolis, to travel the countryside offering tea and a listening ear to anyone who needs it, they are forced to acknowledge a deep sense of dissatisfaction with their life. Hundreds of years ago, when the robots of Panga first gained sentience, they chose to retreat from human society rather than live in it as free citizens-and they haven’t been seen since. language evolves, we get used to the changes and move on.Hugo Award winner Chambers (the Wayfarers series) launches the Monk and Robot series with this contemplative, bite-size novel. The word 'you' used to mean plural only (just like they), but is now used for both singular and plural forms.

It is not that difficult to get used to the use of the they/them pronouns, especially in comparison to the very real difficulties non-binary people experience throughout their lives. New words would feel extremely dehumanizing, unless they are chosen by the bon-binary community or individual for themselves. The reason is that we already have words for human pronouns that are wired into our brains. Making up new pronouns in the English language is advocated against by most non-binary people. For example, sometimes when discussing a person, sex of whom you do not know, you use pronouns they/them, since he/she are not an option. In fact, I imagine most people already have experience with this. It takes only a little bit to get used to it. In fact, I imagine …more The pronouns they/them refer to a non-binary person (not necessarily a trans person). Ksenia The pronouns they/them refer to a non-binary person (not necessarily a trans person).

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