Work can be different. Someone is recruiting people to send them into space, someone is tasked with investigating a murder in a world where the problem of personal immortality has almost been solved, someone must correct the mistake made by the afterlife bureaucrats. A police captain, pursuing an intruder, commits a crime, a sales agent sells a personal computer to the playwright Shakespeare, a mysterious gentleman, restless, tries to find a way to stop the evil unleashed into the world by an irresponsible professor, the executor of the Holy Inquisition is forced to watch as vampires kill an honest man. You can read these and other stories in the collection of short stories “An Hour Before Midnight.”