Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, Paperback/Morgan Robertson
Descriere
Contributor(s):Author: Morgan Robertson THE WORLD'S GREATEST MARITIME TRAGEDY The world's greatest ocean liner crosses the ocean. The largest, most luxurious liner ever to set sail, the Titan is doomed never to make port, but is instead fated to meet her final rest at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. Morgan Robertson's novella is famed for its remarkable similarities to the real-life tragedy which befell the legendary liner, the RMS Titanic fourteen years after the novella was published. Contains four stories THE WRECK OF THE TITAN THE PIRATES BEYOND THE SPECTRUM IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
Despre autor
Morgan Andrew Robertson a fost un autor american de povestiri și romane, și inventatorul auto-proclamat al periscopului. Robertson este cel mai cunoscut pentru romanul său din 1898, Futility, celebru pentru presupusele asemănări ale intrigii sale cu scufundarea în viața reală a transatlanticului RMS Titanic 14 ani mai târziu.