Wreck of the Titan & Other Stories

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Morgan Robertson's "The Wreck of the Titan" is a novella that has developed a certain infamy over the years. Summed up, it is a tale set in part aboard the greatest passenger liner ever built, that sets sail on its maiden voyage and encounters an iceberg ... The infamy of the story comes not from its subject matter, which so closely resembles the facts of the Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912, but the fact that the story was initially published in 1899. Yes, this story apparently predicts the events which came to pass a dozen years later. Surely no coincidence ...