SOLVED. Adult Sci-Fi - Robot protaganist that wants to die. Alien Dragons. A.I. Ship. End of the Universe, Big Crunch AND Big Bang. [s]

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I've been looking for the name of this book for about 12 years now. I think I originally read it around the early 2000s. In previous places where I've asked, another person who couldn't remember the title have said they've read it around '77-'80.

From what I can remember, the main character is a robot that wants to die. He thinks he is being turned off but is tricked and placed into stasis instead.

Dragons exist, they're telepathic, and are actually aliens from a previous universe that inspired the dragons mythology.

The main character who is a robot, along with an A.I. ship, and a dragon band together to survive the end of the universe.

In this world, the universe occurs in cycles. One universe's implosion (big crunch) fuels the next next universe's creation (big bang).

They survive the end of their universe and the creation of the next one. After cultivating/starting new life in the new universe, the robot finally gets what he wants and dies/shuts down.

Edit: editing other things I've remember and had added as replies below:

While waiting for the big crunch/big bang; the main character and the ship they are in, connect together and experience amazing robot sex in a way that no biological can ever have.

People that I've asked in the past have said they think it was an Issac Asimov book that they have read but can't remember the name of.

[Tracy]

May not be the same, but sounds very much like Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. Futuristic settlers go to a planet that is similar to Earth on three spaceships. They end up getting deadly spores landing every 200-250 years, due to a planet which orbits close to theirs, they call the spores thread.

A biogenetisist created dragons to fight thread, from smaller indigenous fire lizard creatures. First settlers had an AI they called AIVAS which they tasked with answering how to stop the spores/thread. AI was set up in southern continent close to colony ships orbiting planet, that continent was evacuated due to volcanic/earthquake issues. Stopping thread is only solved after many generations, when people returned to southern continent.

Northern continent was settled into groups of citizens in holds using names of first settlers and groups of dragon riders in weyrs. These holds and weyrs were set up in cave systems which provided greater safety from thread.

Couple of the titles are The White Dragon and All the Weyrs of Pern.

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That series has been mentioned before in other places where I've asked I think. It's not the book I was looking for :(
Thanks for the help. It does sound like an interesting series. I'll add it to my want to read list!

The antagonist was also a robot I think. He was the one that tricked the protagonist into going into stasis instead of being shut down.
Also, I think there was some kind of physical connection made between the protagonist and the A.I. Ship they were inside of while they were inbetween the universe cycles waiting for the universe to explode (Big Bang) . Where they essentially had amazing robot consciousness sex beyond anything biologicals could achieve

[Ayshe]

The Second Experiment maybe?

[Gareth]

That sounds intriguingly familiar and now I shall be wondering about it too. I think it was short story or novella rather than a novel though.

[Gareth]

The Server and the Dragon by Hannu Rajaniemi

I read it in Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

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Gareth wrote: "That sounds intriguingly familiar and now I shall be wondering about it too. I think it was short story or novella rather than a novel though."

Thanks for the replies. I picked it up and read it; that short story has dragons and a robot, but isn't the book I'm trying to remember :(.

I don't remember the dragon and the robot ever having sex. They were just working together to survive the end of the universe until the next universe came about.

It was the ship and the robot that had sex/connected to each other in a way no biological could experience.

I should probably mention, that the robot was an android in that it was sort of a humanoid shape and not like a giant machine or anything.

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In other places where I asked help to find the title of this book, I've had people suggest that maybe it was an Issac Asimov book. If this helps anyone... I've been slowly going through his books list and haven't found it so far.

[Ayshe]

Name, how about my suggestion in message 4?

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Ayshe wrote: "Name, how about my suggestion in message 4?"

I got my hands on The Second Experiment and I read a bit of it and it struck me how similar it read to the book I was thinking about, especially the name "Tec"; but I don't think this is it.

I did see from your link though, that it is the first book of "The Roiss Series". I checked out the second in the series titled The Last Immortal. The summary reads like it could possibly be it, a lot of stuff fits; even the suggestion from another person that it was an Asimov book, that right there, the writer is an Asimov.

I can't be absolutely sure if that is the book or not, I'll try to get my hands on it. It definitely has a title that young 11 year old me would have grabbed from the library. I remember probably grabbing The Last Book in the Universe and The Last Vampire at around the same time; "The Last" anything as a title always got me checking out the book.

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Ayshe wrote: "Name, how about my suggestion in message 4?"

I haven't managed to get my hands on the book yet, but with what I've been able to see (summaries, synopsis, reviews), I am confident enough to say this is solved. I will be changing the title of this post to reflect that. Thanks to you and everyone's help.

The book is The Last Immortal