The Automation
Subtitle: Vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series
By: [Written by one perosn; BLA and GB Gabbler are a pen name]
Edition: eBook edition
Series: Circo del Herrero
Publisher: SOBpublishing
Published: 2014
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780692250402
Other titles: Book 1 of The Blacksmith's Circus Series
Description: Publisher has made the first volume free online.
Notes: Internet Archive Edition, uploaded by SOBpublishing. 

"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…

Odys (no, not short for Odysseus, thank you) finds his hermetic lifestyle falling apart after a stranger commits suicide to free his soul-attached Automaton slave. The humanoid Automaton uses Odys’s soul to “reactivate” herself. Odys must learn to accept that the female Automaton is an extension of his body—that they are the same person—and that her creator-god is forging a new purpose for all with Automatons…"
Table of contents: title: Contents:; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2; title: CHAPTER THE FIRST 3; title: CHAPTER THE SECOND 11; title: CHAPTER THE THIRD 31; title: CHAPTER THE FOURTH 47; title: CHAPTER THE FIFTH 62; title: CHAPTER THE SIXTH  80; title: CHAPTER THE SEVENTH 89; title: CHAPTER THE EIGHTH 91; title: CHAPTER THE NINTH 103; title: CHAPTER THE TENTH 112; title: CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH 128; title: CHAPTER THE TWELFTH 138; title: CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH 184; title: CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH 234; title: CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH 252; title: CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH 273; title: CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH 284; title: CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH 335; title: CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH 348; title: END NOTE/CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH  354