Long Shot...

[Rick Dean]

I have a feeling this is a long shot as I don't have a lot to go on. I'm looking for a book that I read back in the late 1970's or 1980ish. All I remember is the cover may have had a robot. The book might have had a ship of space travelers and, at one point, they either crash, or land, on a planet that is pretty much populated by robots. I don't remember much else but I've been hoping to find this book again.

Anyway - thank you for any thoughts or ideas ahead of time.

Rick

 

[farntfar]

You've given a description that could point almost anywhere, but I thought of Stowaway to Mars, by John Wyndham.

Probably entirely wrong but at least I tried.
And welcome to the Chrons.

 

[Wruter]

Or how about Asimov's The Naked Sun?

 

[Rick Dean]

You've given a description that could point almost anywhere, but I thought of Stowaway to Mars, by John Wyndham.

Probably entirely wrong but at least I tried.
And welcome to the Chrons.

Thank you for the welcome! Yeah - I know my memory of the book is lacking. I seem to remember the entire planet was populated by robots. One of the crew members on the ship may have been rodent-like but that's where my memory gets fuzzy.

 

[Rick Dean]

Or how about Asimov's The Naked Sun?

It wasn't this one but thank you for the reply! I have read Naked Sun and always loved that book. Pretty much anything in his robot series.

 

[farntfar]

I don't think there were any rodents in Stowaway..
But almost as unthinkable in 1936, the stowaway was a woman.

Mars was inhabited only by the robots though, both civilised and uncivilised ones.
There was considerable discussion of the meaning of life and evolution and stuff between Joan (the aforementioned woman) and one of the robots, as well as some "adventure" stuff.
I enjoyed it a lot, and found it quite thought provoking, although having been written in 1936 it would appear rather dated now in many ways.

 

[Peter V]

You've given a description that could point almost anywhere, but I thought of Stowaway to Mars, by John Wyndham.

Probably entirely wrong but at least I tried.
And welcome to the Chrons.

Somewhere in my garage, in one of many boxes is this book with the cover shown... I probably first read it around 40 years ago and have not looked upon it in over 25 years. Some of my early SF teeth cutting was on John Wyndham.

 

[Danny McG]

The Cyberiads by Stanislaw Lem?

 

[PaulMmn]

White Queen's War?? Or Red Queen? Plot-- ship crash-lands, humans know there's an automated factory on the planet. But there's a host of strange robots all over the place-- fighting each other, and using each other for parts. I'm sorry; I don't remember the author's name, or the color of the queen... but I'm pretty sure it was the queen's war!

--Paul E Musselman

 

[Danny McG]

White Queen's War?? Or Red Queen? Plot-- ship crash-lands, humans know there's an automated factory on the planet. But there's a host of strange robots all over the place-- fighting each other, and using each other for parts. I'm sorry; I don't remember the author's name, or the color of the queen... but I'm pretty sure it was the queen's war!

--Paul E Musselman

Hello Paul
Fruitless 40 minutes or so trying to find anything resembling your story. No joy so far but it does seem to match the OP.

 

[Danny McG]

A little twitch at back of subconscious with this one right at this instant....

M John Harrison **pastel**?

 

[CassFrank]

Might also be A World Called Solitude by Stephen Goldin from 1981. Sole survivor of spaceship crash on a planet of robots, later another ship crashes

 

[sueelleker]

I have a feeling this is a long shot as I don't have a lot to go on. I'm looking for a book that I read back in the late 1970's or 1980ish. All I remember is the cover may have had a robot. The book might have had a ship of space travelers and, at one point, they either crash, or land, on a planet that is pretty much populated by robots. I don't remember much else but I've been hoping to find this book again.

Anyway - thank you for any thoughts or ideas ahead of time.

Rick

Were the robots mechanical or humanoid? I'm thinking of Masters Of Space by E.E.'Doc' Smith. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...of-space.htm&usg=AOvVaw3LgGQAV8qEFXEPiXngcNfQ

 

[royheil]

I don't think there were any rodent-like creatures, but the planet of robots sounds like James P. Hogan's Code of the Lifemaker. It was published in 1983, so the timing is about right.