Reason

The short story Reason was a very interesting story. It can connect to our class definition of science fiction because it involves robots, space travel, and technologies that have not been created by humans yet. It is a futuristic story that is just outside the realm of reality.

Reason is a very good example of the Frankenstein Complex. The creations in question are the robots created by humans on the space station. The two humans on the ship build a new robot who they call QT-1. When they create this robot, they soon realize that it is too intelligent and it starts to rebel against the humans' orders. The commanders begin to develop a fear of their own creation because as it refuses to take orders, it starts treating the humans as lesser beings and doubting their knowledge and the origin of their existence. Another reason why the Frankenstein Complex is prevalent in this story is because QT turns all the robots against humans and makes them worship him and "the master". This provoked more fear in the commanders of the ship because they had ultimately lost control of the entire ship, and despite their best efforts, could not convince QT that they were superior to robots.

I did not like this story too much because the humans gave in to the robots. If it were me in that situation, as soon as I found him controlling the other robots, I would have destroyed him. It is a really scary concept that robots may have the ability to think they are better than humans. However, the story was very interesting and well written.