Machine Man (serial)

I asked a nurse for a sketch book and began drawing up specs. Fleshing out the concept, you might say. I thought about what I really wanted from a leg. It seemed to me, as I lay in my hospital bed, that the designer of biological legs had not been particularly ambitious. I mean, I don’t mean to criticize. Legs are perfectly adequate at conveying a small biological mass from A to B, so long as A and B are not particularly far apart, and you’re in no hurry. That’s not bad, when you’re limited to raw materials you can grow yourself. But I had to think that if anyone was designing a leg today, they would build in a lot more features.

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