(Found) - robot waking with no memory

[Shel80]

There's a book I had ages ago. Basically starts with a robot waking with no memory in a ditch/crater or something like that. Turns out he was a human who was transferred in to a robot. He ends up finding his wife which his 'friend' uploaded into a robot who serves him. Jumps back and forth between far into the future and near future.

 

[Parson]

I don't know, and more information is always a good thing. Like is "ages" 5 years? 40 years? More? Less? What did the cover look like? Was it assigned reading? Any other plot that you remember. Stuff like that.

But if you like this kind of a story, here's a story with a similar set up, (but is not about time travel) Martha Wells .... "All Systems Red" .... It is a story of a cyborg who has lost much of her memory but she is remembering enough that she calls herself "murderbot" --- A series 3 deep at present and the winner of several awards.

All Systems Red won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella,[4] the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella,[5] and the American Library Association's Alex Award,[6] and was nominated for the 2017 Philip K. Dick Award.

 

[Shel80]

Thanks - first time seeker here
I was given it as a gift around 2000, but it feels more mid nineties.
The whole transferring human consciousness into robots started off as a great idea. Then people started kind of protesting it.
The woman and the two men were friends back in their uni days. But main character married her.
For the protagonist and the woman, the were transferred not by their choice.

I've been recommended All Systems Red and bought it last week. Started reading it last night.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Reminds me a bit of Pat Cadigan

 

[williamjm]

There's a book I had ages ago. Basically starts with a robot waking with no memory in a ditch/crater or something like that. Turns out he was a human who was transferred in to a robot. He ends up finding his wife which his 'friend' uploaded into a robot who serves him. Jumps back and forth between far into the future and near future.

I think this sounds very like Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal, the second book in his Fall Revolution series. It's set in two periods, one in late 20th Century Scotland and one in the far future on New Mars. The protagonist is Jonathan Wilde, who is reawakened as a humanoid robot on New Mars, which is now ruled by his former friend and political rival who has also built an android based on Wilde's wife.

I was given it as a gift around 2000, but it feels more mid nineties.

The Stone Canal was published in 1996.

 

[Shel80]

YES! That's it! Thankyou williamjm

 

[Parson]

I've been recommended All Systems Red and bought it last week. Started reading it last night.

I think you'll love it. After writing the note about All Systems Red I went and found it on my Kindle and ordered book 2 Artificial Condition at $9.99 for a book that is novella length is a bit of a psychological stretch for me, so I am now re-reading ASR so that I'm fully aboard when I read book 2.