Something for Everything

Automatons #2

by B.P. Gregory

Long ago humanity retreated into migrating cities, leaving the landscape to monsters. Within the safety of walls the caste of Surgeons are denied human touch to preserve their skills.

A Surgeon must not be touched. The city can never stop. Comforting truths to live by. But the other cities have fallen silent. Fear stalks the streets. And John the Surgeon craves touch more than anything.

Monsters, machines and roaming cities, insanity, betrayal and lust: centuries later, the seeds of grim legacy sown in Automatons have borne strange fruit indeed...

348 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 2015

About the author

BP Gregory has been an archaeology student and a dilettante of biology, psychology, and apocalypse prepping. She is the author of five novels including the recently released Flora & Jim, about a father who’ll do anything to keep his daughter alive in a frozen wasteland.

BP Gregory lives in Melbourne with her husband and is currently working on The Newru Trail, a murder-mystery set in a world where houses eat your memories. For stories, reviews and recommendations as she ploughs through her to-read pile visit bpgregory.com.

Reviews

[Olga Lenkevich · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've won this book through Goodreads First Reads and Author sent me the entire dilogy
The story takes place several generations after the first book Automatons. There are several familiar heroes (in the new hypostases) and the common concept
Well, the tale-prediction from the first book comes true and the Son comes to free people from their sins.
Sounds like the Bible, but in the Bible nobody pukes their sins out to the extent of ecological catastrophe.
Yeah, humanity always has an inclination to ruin the world around them; the more strange and stupid way, the better.
So, why not destroy your environment by puking sins out all around????
And then hurriedly retreat into special roaming cities and leave the terrain to newborn/newly puked creatures.
The new strange world, the new era.
In this weird world of ghosts, monsters, and untouchable Surgeons, anything may happen.
I'm really fascinated by BP Gregory's imagination: you'll never know what awaits you on the next page.
Such brainchildren as Downstairs People or The Blessed give a strong tasty tint of horror.
Let them sidestep to other ideas and we have solid sci-fi.
Sallies into Outside are dangerous adventures under an unbearable open sky.
Genres change and transmogrify like a kaleidoscope and along with them odd events, places, and characters change and weave into a whimsical mysterious tale.
Very nice read
4.5 stars

[Jocelyn Sanchez · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read two of BP's books now, this one and the Outermen, and I have to say, although I didn't like this book as much as the Outermen, I did enjoy reading this book. It has an interesting plot that has you thinking the whole book with fun and equally interesting characters along with it. I don't want to say too much, I'm trying not to ruin anything, but I will say the book is suspenseful and mysterious, which I liked because I couldn't guess what was going to happen next.

I recommend this book to everyone! A fast-paced and interesting book I think a lot of people would love and appreciate.

I received this book in exchange for my honest review.

[G. Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Something for Everything by BP Gregory is groundbreaking in style, scope and execution. This far-flung future-apocalypse sequel to the Automatons hits all the right sci-fi and horror notes while saturating the hybrid-offspring narrative with an intelligent voice for comedy that delights and inspires without dipping too far into the sardonic. This engaging tale of the shape of what might come follows wandering cities on the run from bloodthirsty horrors, where holocaust and the restless dead haunt hopeless heroes.
BP Gregory delivers an unsettling postscript to the car culture and human dependence upon machines.