Guardian
Thomas F. Monteleone1981

There existed nothing like it in the known World. It climbed boldly into the sky, a symbol of the power and imagination of those who had created it...

Varian Hamer stood face to face with a robot. It was not only fantastic - it was impossible. In the known World there were no such things as robots. They had been destroyed, along with everything else, thousands of years before, in what many supposed was Armageddon.

But there it was, staring him in the eye. And shortly, Varian and a small band of adventurers embarked on the greatest search the world had ever known. To find Guardian. The sentinel of the First Age. The Last artifact of a lost civilization.

And while they searched, Guardian waited...

Titre original : Guardian (1981)