title: Deathstalker Prelude : Mistworld', 'Ghostworld', 'Hellworld
author:  Simon R. Green 
description: This is the prelude to the Deathstalker books. The Empire that spanned lightyears, is now rotten to the core and its half-mad empress rules with a fist of iron. The stories told are "Mistworld", "Ghostworld" and "Hellworld".
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  **Deathstalker by Simon**
  
   **R. Green**
  
  _**CHAPTER ONE**_
  
  _**Clash by Night**_
  
  It gets dark out on the Rim. Strange planets and stranger people can be found
  on the edge of Empire, where habitable worlds are few and civilization grows
  thin.
  
  Beyond the Rim lies uncharted darkness, where no stars shine and few ships go.
  
  It's easy to get lost out there, far away from everything. Starcruisers patrol
  up to the Rim, but there are never enough ships to cover the vast areas of
  open space.
  
  The Empire is growing too large, too cumbersome, though no one will admit it,
  or at least, no one who matters. Every year more worlds are brought into the
  Empire, and the frontiers press hungrily outward. But not on the Rim. The
  Empire stops cold there, dwarfed by the unplumbable depths of the Darkvoid.
  
  It gets dark out there