story about a human that believes to be a robot
I'm from Brazil and the book i'm looking for is one that is very dear to my father because it is the first science fiction book he read and it sparked a long trajectory of reading the genre. He read it in the 70s, or possibly the 80s, and belives it was written by <PERSON>, although i don't think it was.
The book tells the story of a robot that lives in a society where all robots are subservient to humans, and the protagonist admires humans' superiority over robots, like it's physical bodies which seem vastly superior, among other things. 944
Eventually the robot ends up being contacted by a secret robot society that is against their domination by humans, and he ends up learning the great plot twist of the book that what the robots like him are actually humans and his overlords are robots pretending to be the humans. I think that the protagonist ends up being instrumental to the plan of this society, as some sort of chosen one that can help them end up their subjugation.
He also recalls some very specific passages, which i don't know if it may be of assistance to recognize the story, such as him describing for example how his overlords (the fake humans) when cut, bled some beautiful transparent liquid, while him and his kind leaked some ugly red oil, which at the time you don't realize but he is actually talking about blood.
In other passage he describes how the female robots are taken into factories, where new robots are assembled, because the protagonist doesn't understand the idea of pregnancy, since it all happens hidden on those factories.
this is the gist of the plot, but i reckon not all of the elements may actually be in the story, because it's been a long time since he read it, and i think he may be mixing up some element or another from other works, like i've seen him do before.
Overall, i think the story might not be from <PERSON>, because that description of robots seem to go against anything i know from <PERSON>'s robots, perhaps being from some anthology of stories that <PERSON> edited and so had his name at the covers. Other details may not be accurate either, or with time became incorporated from other stories he read. 322