Even after the set had been turned off, the TV blared the announcement:
"Citizens of Earth, I am Tersh Jetterax. It is my pleasure to announce to you that a new government has taken over the conduct of all public affairs."
And thus the US was in the hands of the Monitors, the strangely polite yellow-clad beings whose powers were such that they could render everyone helpless - without shedding one drop of blood. 
Who are they? The Russians? An alien race from another planet?

The Monitors

Lors de la mise en service d'une centrale expérimentale de télétransmission d'énergie — premier pas vers la distribution universelle et gratuite d'énergie à toutes les machines de l'humanité —, une étrange tornade se forme sur l'Atlantique. En quelques heures, elle altère désastreusement les conditions météorologiques du continent américain et, s'étendant sans frein, elle plonge bientôt toute la planète dans une terrible et continuelle tempête.Pendant que se déchaîne cette catastrophe, deux hommes singuliers entrent dans l'action : un prisonnier fédéral qui semble avoir été détenu depuis plus d'un siècle, et un vaga­bond qui porte encore une blessure datant de la Guerre de Sécession. Le prisonnier s'évade, le vagabond retrouve mira­culeusement sa jeunesse, et tous deux se dirigent vers la centrale. Tandis qu'ils s'en approchent, la police et l'armée tentent de les arrêter mais en vain. On découvre alors que ces deux hommes se sont déjà rencontrés en bien des époques et bien des lieux, dans un duel qui a donné nais­sance à de nombreuses légendes de l'humanité.Et ce sont ces hommes, nés il y a de longs siècles et sous une autre étoile, qui vont risquer leur vie pour sauver la planète étrangère devenue leur patrie...

Le long Crépuscule

THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE TERRESTRIENNE HAS NEVER SEEN HIS LIKE...
Retief - the most diplomatic diplomat of the 27th century.
His mission: to gain control of the most desirable planet in the universe - without triggering intergalactic war.
He tries talking ... but how does anyone - even Retief - negotiate with an uninhabited planet?
He tries a dice game ... but how does gambling help the solar peace organization prevent the malevolent Basurans (who've eaten their own planet) from turning to Terra's prize colony for an after-dinner snack?
The problems Retief faces are just beginning, but as insurmountable as they seem, the indomitable adventurer prevails - and keeps the state of the universe on an even keel!

Retief: Emissary to the Stars

The Earth was in shambles after the final quake had leveled the cities. 
For Mal Irish the last hold on reality was the embossed gold coin he had taken from the pocket of the dead man - the man who with his last breath had told him of mastodons buried in ice and men who weren't human. 
Once in possession of the coin, Mal found himself on a mysterious quest which led him to discover even stranger things - the girl who spoke the language of another world, the city under the ocean floor, and the deadly little men who followed him. He was in the power of something beyond his understanding, and he meant to find out its source before it put him to its own unfathomable uses.

Catastrophe Planet

Astronaut John Jackson is finally going to realize his life's dream: exploring a brand-new world. However, after spending a century in suspended animation aboard his exploration starship, he awakens to discover that he never left Earth. The world he left behind no longer exists. A world war has left the Earth in decimated shambles, inhabited by new barbarians and deadly sentient tanks. All seems lost, but this devastated world never had to deal with the resolve of John Jackson, the last man standing.

Bolo: The Stars Must Wait

Unrivaled in the history of artillery and unsurpassed in its ability to reason, Bolo replaced man in that most human of endeavors: war.
In these scintillating tales of the ever-advancing Dinochrome Brigade, the most effective weapons ever devised ell their own story in action-packed chronicles of extra-terrestrial adventure. 
Bolo: fighting in proud combat as monster saviors of their human creators.

Bolo

THE DEMONS HAD TO STOP JOHN BRAVAIS
His secret assignment was simply - to save mankind from the savage dog-like 'things' that used their hands like men. Yet an unknown number of apparently 'human' beings were against him too.
First transformed by surgery into a superman, John Bravais probes ever more deeply into the secret nightmare world of the 'things'. At last, when only his mind remains - trapped in a vast robot war machine on the moon - only by an immense act of will-power can he give humanity a future.

A Plague of Demons

As the concept of intelligent fighting machines developed, the Bolo division of General Motors started working on tank designs that incorporated awareness and intelligence within the development of their tactical tanks. With each new generation, these awesome fighting machines become more self-aware, with capabilities not only matching their human controllers, but often surpassing them. This collection of action-packed stories lets the Bolo war machines speak for themselves as they hunt and destroy all who stands in their way. But beyond the action itself, these stories speak to us all on a very human level . about the far-reaching, and often tragic, consequences of our actions.

Bolo: The Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade

BLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND - A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS...
Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke to find himself in a universe not his own. Surrounded by hulking, cannibalistic ape men who called themselves Hagroon, Bayard was soon entrapped in a web of time lines. He found himself running from the Hagroon into the arms of Dzok, the educated monkey man of Xonijeel; transported by Dzok to a universe where Napoleon the Fifth was in power and left there to the tender powers of the beautiful witch Olivia; struggling with the bonds of a fictitious past, always striving to regain his lost universe of Zero-zero Stockholm so he could bring the warning which might save his world from sudden, violent death...

The Monitors

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