A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
by Becky Chambers
Philosophy! Travels! Bromance! I'm literally (literally!) the person who needs to stop every dozen paces and look at a tree or a lichen, and I'm full of random biology facts, and I do feel called out.
Thinking about how monocultural religio-philosophical agreement takes the place of government to regulate conflict in this world, which, hm. :/ Like, she does try to complicate this with the coastal community, and that's interesting! But they're working from the same axioms---there's no one who thinks that it should actually be OK to build robots and use fossil fuels, and no indication of how a society like this would deal with that kind of disagreement. Have the ascetics ever tried to convert others to their way of thinking or fight what they see as harm? Also, there's no one who doesn't believe in the same 6-god system, even though there are disagreements between scholars within that system.
I do want to reread both of these.