This is the Omnibus Edition of Automatons Book One: Automatons; and Automatons Book Two: Something For Everything.Perhaps the world ended and we brought it on ourselves; but only Joyce noticed the whimper. While a Surgeon must not be touched, John craves it more than anything. Spanning hundreds of years, books one and two of Automatons are a stripping bare of the ways people stumble blindly down the same old paths, and how we find it so much easier to be humane to our technology than each other.