I read a book a while back and I can't remember the title. The only thing I remember are that a spaceship crashed on a (war) planet where every living thing was destroyed in a planetary war except robots who are the only things left on the planet. They nurse the protagonist back to health. There may be other survivors in the crashed spaceship. The planet was inside a nebulae and the inhabitants of the planet waged war on themselves because they couldn't see any other stars outside of the nebulae so they believed they were alone in the universe, they never had the need to explore.
SF book from the 1970's
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Danny McG
Lid closed, monkey dead.
this rings a faint bell but maybe. ... ??? hmmm ... in one of the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy books there was some robots from a planet where nobody knew there was an outside galaxy due to surrounding nebula (perhaps!) . Once that particular planet realised then they sent out the robots to wipe out all life by playing exploding cricket. Possibility?
DannyMcG, you're thinking of Douglas Adam's Life, the Universe and Everything, which was published in 1982. While it does feature a planet stuck in a dust cloud and robot warriors, I'm not so sure about some of the other details. If this is it, I would think the OP would have at least mentioned that it was a funny book! 
Yes. This sounds very much like the planet Krikkit, from (I think) the third book of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Long ago Krikkit was a planet entirely surrounded by a gas cloud, so that they had never seen the stars and believed that they were alone in the universe. (Which wasn't very big)
When a spaceship crashed on their planet they suddenly realised that they weren't alone and became madly xenophobic.
So they build tall white robots to go out and kill the rest of life with little red bombs which they launched with short battle clubs.
The whole galaxy remembered them, but only Earth was tactless enough to make it into a game, which is why no-one comes from other worlds to visit us.
Long ago Krikkit was a planet entirely surrounded by a gas cloud, so that they had never seen the stars and believed that they were alone in the universe. (Which wasn't very big)
When a spaceship crashed on their planet they suddenly realised that they weren't alone and became madly xenophobic.
So they build tall white robots to go out and kill the rest of life with little red bombs which they launched with short battle clubs.
The whole galaxy remembered them, but only Earth was tactless enough to make it into a game, which is why no-one comes from other worlds to visit us.
Danny McG
Lid closed, monkey dead.
yeah you're right. The OP did say the seventies - I should have thought before typing stuff out. compulsive!
monkeypooper
Was Auch Immer
Its fine danny if not the right one gives the OP ideas for other stuff similar to read plus it may have been a guess as to the year any answer helps even if not relevant to that particular search
Agreed. It's not too unlikely that someone might remember something from '82 as "the 70s," anyway. I was just pointing out that some key details don't seem to match that well.
I'm interested to know the answer to this one, since it's always intriguing to learn who originated particular tropes. I first came across the idea of a planet isolated by a nebula in Life, the Universe and Everything, so now I'm wondering who came up with it first. Maybe the OP will come back some day...
I'm interested to know the answer to this one, since it's always intriguing to learn who originated particular tropes. I first came across the idea of a planet isolated by a nebula in Life, the Universe and Everything, so now I'm wondering who came up with it first. Maybe the OP will come back some day...
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