The Book of Morgan

About the Book

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

About the Author

Tony Morgan was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. After graduating from Brown University with concentration in American Literature, he spent the next forty years as an executive in the marketing research and advertising fields. During these years, he also taught graduate seminars at Manhattan College and the University of Southern California. He is the author of six professional journal articles and two recent novels. Tony now lives with his wife in Southbury, Connecticut, and has four grown children, four granddaughters, and two great-grandsons. He is currently a member of the Heritage Village Writers’ Group and has always considered himself more of a storyteller than a writer. Therefore, what more could he do than to present you with this collection of stories and essays?