Fragments of the Future is a collection of imaginative literary and science-fiction stories previously published individually in periodicals and anthologies in the U.S., U.K., and other countries. This second edition is revised and enlarged from the first edition, which was published by StoneThread Publishing. From the Introduction to the First Edition: ... Robert Morgan finds himself suddenly, and without any reason, famous for his alternate-universe theory. He meets Ruth Collins - who has her own universe. ... Passengers on a flight relive an old John Wayne movie where the plane survives - but there is a deleted scene with a different ending. Fragments of the Future contains these stories, and more. Here are people like you, caught up in events where the world they know crumbles. Some of these stories could happen, even if unlikely; others take place only in the improbable world of the mind.