What is "overlords"

Usage examples of "overlords".

The task has been a difficult one, for the majority of people seem content to let the Overlords run the world as they please.

In any case, what freedom have we lost compared with that which the Overlords have given us for the first time in human history?

There was apprehension, but little fear or panic, for no-one believed that the Overlords would take any violent or destructive action which would involve innocent and guilty alike.

The greatest change a suddenly awakened Rip Van Winkle would have noticed was a hushed expectancy, a mental glancing-over-the-shoulder, as mankind waited for the Overlords to show themselves and to step down from their gleaming ships.

But this, like all other speculations concerning the Overlords, was pure guesswork.

It might be, too, that he was beginning to identify himself with the Overlords, and thus become detached from humanity.

He wondered what the Supervisor was doing, for he did not believe that the Overlords ever slept.

And the civilization of the Overlords, veiled in mystery though it might be, was the greatest challenge Man had ever faced.

If only he could convince Karellen of this, the Overlords might change their policy.

The tumult suddenly subsided as the world realized that it had lost the only man through whom the Overlords, for their own strange reasons, would speak to Earth.

He had felt that, whatever happened, the immense resources of the Overlords would soon locate and rescue him.

Even before the Overlords came to Earth, the sovereign state was dying.

Floating there at eye-level was a small, featureless sphere-the source, no doubt, of whatever mysterious force the Overlords had brought into action.

He was looking into the future, imagining the day that he would never see, when the great ships of the Overlords came down at last to Earth and were thrown open to the waiting world.

The day before, the great fleet of the Overlords had dissolved into nothingness, fading like mists beneath the morning dew.