Full record for Frankenstein complex n.

Definition	the anxiety and distrust humans feel for robots
OED requirements	antedating 1947
Earliest cite	Isaac Asimov, 'Little Lost Robot'
Comment	Imran Ghory submitted a cite from a 1996 reprint of Isaac Asimov's 1990 essay "The Robot Chronicles"; we would like to verify this in its first appearance in the Asimov collection "The Robot Chronicles". Jeff Prucher submitted a 2002 cite from David Langford's "The Last Robot Story". Jeff Prucher submitted a cite from a 1991 reprint of Isaac Asimov's 1954 article "Robots I Have Known". D.E. Siegel submitted, and Mike Christie verified a 1947 cite from Isaac Asimov's "Little Lost Robot". Irene Grumman submitted a 1989 cite from a letter in Asimov's. Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1994 reprint of Lois McMaster Bujold's "Falling Free", which Mike Christie verified in its first appearance in Analog in 1987. Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1993 reprint of Melissa Scott's 1992 "Dreamships". We would like earlier cites from Isaac Asimov, and cites of any date from other authors.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

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2002 D. Langford The Last Robot Story in 3SF Dec. 13/2

The unknown terrorist cabal is trying to trade on humanity's Frankenstein complex by throwing the blame on to robots—despite the incontrovertible fact, known to every schoolchild, that the First Law of Robotics will not permit a robot to harm a human being nor by inaction allow a human being to come to harm, while the Second Law‥What's wrong?