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5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK! MORAGON 'S BOOK IS SO GOOD FOR 1898, Nov 23 2003

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This review is from: The Wreck of the Titan or Futility (Hardcover)

Whoa!
I screamed when i recived it from amazon.com.
It was scary.Like a bone chiller,or maybe a thriller.
morgan robertson had out done her self.
She has a good book to be written in the 1890's.
this book should be 100.00.It seems to me to be a rare novel.
this book was a prediction.TITAN was related to (TITAN)IC.
GET THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Book that Foretold the Future, Aug 15 2003

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This review is from: The Wreck of the Titan or Futility (Hardcover)

In 1898, and English author named Morgan Robertson published a novel about a huge new ocean liner. The ship was far larger than any that had ever been built. The fictional characters on board were mostly the rich and famous. The ship set off on its first voyage. Halfway across the Atlantic, on a cold night in April, the make-believe ship hit and iceberg and sank. There was great loss of life.

Robertson's book, entitled Futility, did not do well. Few people read it. Few people even knew about it.

Certainly not the owners of the White Star Shipping Line.

Fourteen years after the publication of the book, White Star built what was then the largest ocean liner in the world. In nearly every way, it was almost exactly like the one in Robertson's novel. Both were around 800 feet long and weighed between 60 and 70 thousand tons. Both vessels had triple propellers and could make 24 to 25 knots. Both could carry about 3,000 people, and both had enough lifeboats for only a fraction of this number. But, then, this wasn't supposed to matter; both ships were said to be "unsinkable."

On April 10, 1912, the real ship left England on her first voyage. On board were some of the richest and most famous people in the world. On a cold April night, about halfway across the Atlantic, the ship struck and iceberg. With great loss of life, she sank.

The real ship, of course, was the Titanic. As for the name of the imaginary ship, the author called it the Titan.

Taken from a book entitled "Amazing True Stories" by Don L. Wolffson

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1.0 out of 5 stars IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE TITANIC..., Aug 23 2001

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This review is from: The Wreck of the Titan or Futility (Hardcover)

This book would not even be of any value. The book had very little to do with the ship, Titan and the storyline that Morgan Robertson applied to the story was scarcely believable. After so much attention was given to the similarities between the Titan and the Titanic, I was expecting more than what I got.

I know little about the author but he did write other pieces that had some degree of prophecy associated -- lasers, as US war with Japan, etc. But he could not develop his thoughts and put them down on writing in an entertaining manner.

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