Please - Help identifying a science fiction book involving intelligent insects?
This book from my teenage years I just cant get out of my mind for many years now, and sooo want to re-read!
It involved a travelling space-ship full of a few key characters - a male and a villan (I think asian female from some sort of sinister government role..perhaps called <PERSON>?)
The ship crash lands on an alien world that was sort of 'protected' by some other worldly pan dimensional alien species, referenced in the past but of which we know almost nothing..
The world however is full of vicious native animal creatures, and the protagonist (with some help?) adventures along a river fighting off or avoiding the native fauna using his earlier special training along the way..
However more interestingly it later involved the protagonist being later captured by a hive of highly intelligent advanced insects - who proceed to eat some of his previous crew members (followers of his enemy?) who resist, and by analysing their DNA work out both human's ancestral evolutionary past, and how to better "communicate" with humans, producing a sort of drug to help the human's 'see' better...
The drug however greatly enhances the protagonists mental abilities far beyond that of any human, allowing him not just to communicate with the insects, but control them..and provides him with growing mental powers..
The protagonist then uses these power to transport itself into a higher plane of existence...
Only to be captured in another dimension by a giant 40 foot high advanced AI robotic creature (that was once biological many eons ago), who scientifically studies and mentally interrogates him like a animal - determined to find out which universe he came from and how to escape its own dying system, to return to his new younger one (later with its species, off course!)...
Which it eventually manages to do, and he escapes back, somehow summoning the hyper-dimensional alien protectors (the ones that had protected the planet he had crashed on) - who destroy the robotic AI as it enters our university - causing massive explosion in the process..
It was an incredibly interesting read, and I just cant get it out of my head...more so in that I now actually understand now science, evolutionary biology, DNA and medical matters to a far better degree now..!!
Note : It might have been a short story - I am not sure...
Ive tried searching for this title for years - without any success...
Hoping someone here may know..! 1012