A circus so entertaining even the gods wish to join... The 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 on to something-his Automata have turned the heads of other gods. There's a reason he 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. [Ten years since the publication of the first installment of the Circo del Herrero/The Blacksmith's Circus series and in anticipation of the third and final comes this combined edition containing
The Automation
and its alembic sequel
The Pre-programming.
]