Author/Title needed, tags: Europa, Robot, Aliens, Novel

[jbot]

Hi,

I read a book some years ago about a race of very advanced aliens who landed on Jupiter's moon Europa and developed a civilization of robots a million years ago. 18 mastermind aliens controlled the population of robots. The protagonist is a robot (investigator I think ?) who is trying to save his planet. The book was old at the time (maybe written in the 70's or 80's. The color was yellow. I have no idea what the name was or the author. Every internet search I have done comes up with meaningless crap. Can't find it. Can you help me??? It was a great book.


Thanks...

[dwndrgn]

Best I could come up with is Isaac Asimov's Robot series where a human investigator is paired with a cyborg one.

The only other option would be Ian Douglas' Heritage Trilogy.

I hope someone has the answer for you!

[Ursa major]

Could the publisher have been Gollancz, which was known for its yellow covers?

[Taltos]

Maybe this will help - then again, maybe not - there is a book about 1 million year old robot civilization on Saturn's moon Titan - James P. Hogan Code of the Lifemaker (big planet, small moon etc.)

[jbot]

taltos, you are superman. that is the book. i was wrong about europa, titan i gues...

thanks so much. i have been trying to figure this one out for ages. i will re-read the book. it is a fantastic story.

thank you very very much for your help.

jesse