The story “Dispatcher” is about railway workers of the 22nd century. Humanity, using the properties of annihilation, has laid transport routes right through the center of the Earth, connecting the most remote corners of the planet. Through the prism of ordinary everyday life, we see a wide palette of the future: the latest technologies, relations between states and peoples... But, as always, the focus is on man himself, his beliefs and responsibility to other people and himself. And the man, the Dispatcher, is struggling with the threat of disaster - in the very center of the Earth - on the Through Railways. And they confront the Controller with forces on a cosmic scale...