Ozymandias — Thomas F. Monteleone

The scientific magicians of the First Age who built the Artificial Intelligence machine called it Guardian. Secure in the Citadel, a secret complex constructed to contain it, Guardian had survived the holocaust which consumed its creators and the rest of civilization. Now , the world was only beginning to emerge from the ashes of the First Age; it was a time when the technologies of earlier days were little more than half-forgotten myths.