The Misty World, the last Empire-independent planet of habitable space, is becoming the only place where fugitives from the dead planets find refuge: emigrants and criminals. The plot of the novel is the implementation of a powerful and complex conspiracy that was supposed to undermine the defense of the rebellious planet from the inside. The scene 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 space civilizations is the basis of the plot of the novel by Simon Green “The World of Ghosts”.