B.l.a.

The capital-A Automatons of Greco-Roman myth aren't clockwork. Their design is much more divine. They're more intricate than robots or androids or anything else mortal humans could invent. Their windup keys are their human Masters. They aren't mindless; they have infinite storage space. And, because they have more than one form, they're more versatile and portable than, say, your cell phone-and much more useful too. The only thing these god-forged beings share in common with those lowercase-A automatons is their pre-programmed existence. They have a function-a function Hephaestus put into place-a function that was questionable from the start...

Vol. 1 of the Circo Del Herrero Series

The Automation

[The crippled god of metallurgy, fire, and alchemy has many names and many faces -- sometimes Hephaestus, Ptah, or Vulcan. He changes to suit his needs. And just like his names, his creations have gone through countless revisions. This time, he's finally onto something -- his Automata have turned the heads of other gods. They've noticed their pre-programmed potential. There's a reason Vulcan didn't scrap the Automata -- a reason he left them in the care of humans all this time. They were just the beta testers for his most intricate windup toy yet¿Vulcan's ancient Automata find their purpose rebooted in the second installment of the CIRCO DEL HERRERO/THE BLACKSMITH'S CIRCUS series. Their immortal human Masters will drop like flies -- superfluous in the next round as the gods shuffle in a new deck of fateful cards. The Masters can choose how and when, but they will all die to free the Automata of their earthly chains. Odys and his Automaton, Maud, struggle to protect his twin sister from the plotting of his dual-bodied adversaries. But his sister, Odissa, finds herself a willing participant in The Blacksmith's latest exhibition -- could she be the missing cog to the god's tightly wound machine all along?In this thrilling sequel to THE AUTOMATION, the Narrator and Editor drag readers deeper into the dark history and even darker future of the Automata. When the subterranean god emerges with his postlapsarian blueprint, so will the truth about B.L.A. and G.B. Gabbler. THE PRE-PROGRAMMING is a literary outrage that dares you to keep reading between the lines and the footnotes.]

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