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    Which book of the 1890s by an author called Robertson was given another print run some years later due to its seemingly prophetic nature?

    Question #59203. Asked by gmackematix. (Sep 05 05 11:41 PM)


    McGruff

    		This is Morgan Robertson's "Futility."

    1st printing. NY: M.F. Mansfield. 1898. hardcover. fiction. isbn: none. scarcity: very scarce.

    Robertson’s prophetic story of a great passenger liner, claimed unsinkable, which strikes an iceberg and sinks with horrific loss of life. Robertson wrote this novella 14 years before the Titanic disaster.
    http://titanicbooksite.com/RobertsonMorgan.html


    Morgan's fictional ship was named "Titan" and was eerily close in size to the Titanic. She was racing across the Atlantic in the month of April when she collided with an iceberg off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland near midnight. Despite her many watertight compartments, the ship foundered very quickly and almost everyone was lost, due in no small part to a completely insufficient number of lifeboats. When the book was reissued after the Titanic disaster, it was renamed "Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan."

    Sep 06 05, 5:22 AM
    gmackematix

    		Yay McG! Here is further comparison:
    http://members.aol.com/ken63728/morgan.htm

    And if you believe this suggests that all life is so predetermined then all is indeed futility.
    Still, mustn't grumble.

    Sep 06 05, 10:22 AM

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