Futility

In 1898, Morgan Robertson published a novella about a magnificent ocean liner called the Titan that strikes an iceberg and sinks one cold April night.
Fourteen years later, the RMS Titanic met almost the same fate.
This annotated edition presents the complete original 1898 text of Futility with footnotes and historical annotations, also clarifying the differences between the original publication and the later 1912 revisions that most are familiar with today. This illuminates the uncanny parallels between Robertson’s fiction and the real Titanic disaster.
A chilling work of historical lessons that continues to interest many over 125 years later.

Update Oct. 12th, 2026: An Acknowledgment page has been added to the front matter thanking Hathitrust and Internet Archive for making digitized copies of these historical texts available.