The Misty World, the last planet of inhabited space independent of the Empire, becomes the only place where fugitives from dead planets find refuge: emigrants and criminals. The plot of the novel is the implementation of a powerful and complex conspiracy, which was supposed to undermine the defense of the rebellious planet from within. The setting of the next novel is a planet inhabited by the spirits of those who lived here before the barbaric operation to destroy the rebels. An expedition sent to the planet discovers an alien ship - a terrible mixture of a machine and a living organism. The clash of two cosmic civilizations lies at the heart of the plot of Simon Green's novel "Ghost World".