A book about an enormous British passenger liner, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats that, on a voyage in the month of April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. It’s about the Titanic.
No, Morgan Stevenson wrote a book called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan. Yes, he called his ship the Titan. Yes, the Titanic sunk on April 12.
Rip-off, right?
Well, yes, except for the fact that he wrote and published the book 14 years before the Titanic set sail.
It gets weirder.
His 1905 book described a periscope. In 1914, he wrote a book about a war between the Japanese and America, which included a surprise attack by Japan.
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