THE FICTION SECTION

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Harry Lego loved to build using Legos as a child. Harry grew up a man with special abilities. He solved problems with his Lego men, and he would always pretend. Harry had no friends. When he was a child, he would pretend that his lego men were real men. Harry turned to computers and technology and made his men digital. Then Harry made the men in his own image. He thought, “ I will make me a Lego World.”

Locked in Harry’s computer, there are many digital men created in his image. They were created to be smart and to build many inventions. They could not build real buildings, but only models of buildings so that real buildings could be built on the outside in the real world. However, Harry wondered how to make the digital men robots so that they could be real in his world. He wanted his robots to have a mind of their own just as he did. Harry wanted them to be made with real flesh and to look like real people. He did not care much for cloning. Harry thought that would be going too far and things could get out of hand.

Harry looked at his digital men in pixel form. He wanted to invent a machine that could create another him from one of his digital men. Harry wanted to create a special type of skin for robots. First, Harry had to build a machine.