Editor: Gardner, Martin; Introduction: Gardner, Martin
Paperback
157 pages
Published: June 1998
Prometheus Books UK
ISBN: 1573922013

Believers in paranormal powers of precognition have long maintained that the sinking of the Titanic was perceived in advance by extrasensory perception (ESP). Their prize example is Morgan Robertson's sea novel, The Wreck of the Titan, published 14 years before the Titanic went down. This unusual short novel is reproduced here in full, along with a selection of other writings that seem to foretell the Titanic's fate.Discusses the widespread belief that the sinking of the Titanic was described before it happened, and presents the complete texts of Morgan Robinson's short novel, Futility, about the sinking of a ship called the Titan, and similar works.