The Book of Morgan

The original title of this collection was The Many Realities of Ynot Nagrom—this because some of the people who may have read my novels and/or a few of the short stories contained in this volume have asked me if I consider myself a science fiction writer. As you will see, many of these thirty stories and essays are far from that genre; therefore, I do not consider myself to be such a writer. Rather, I see myself at times consumed with the possibilities of alternative realities. For instance, what if...

• there was a way the South would have been able to win the battle of Gettysburg and, with it, the Civil War

• the Titanic had missed the iceberg

• we were able to build a Super Hadron Collider the circumference of the moon, which then opened a parallel universe to ours, and

• George Custer had not chosen to leave his two Gatling guns behind on his way to the Little Bighorn?

As the cover proclaims, I have also included my literary essays, short stories, and personal tales for all of you. And as the Koran begins, “Not a word of this book should you doubt.”

Tony Morgan