The Wreck of the Titan & The Titanic Disaster April 15, 1912 - Softcover

Prommersberger, Jürgen; Robertson, Morgan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542453283 ISBN 13: 9781542453288

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The Wreck of the Titan & The Titanic Disaster April 15, 1912 This book tells the story of two ship-wreckages. One is real and the other one is fiction. The name of these ships are RMS Titanic and Titan. In the year 1898 (with an update in 1912), the writer Morgan Robertson told a story about a big catastrophy at sea. The then biggest ocean liner Titan strucks an iceberg and sinks with heavy loss of life. Does this sound familiar? Starting with the ships names, the size of the ships and all the circumstances of the loss? Find out the astonishing similarities in reading first the story of the Titan and have then a detailed look into the drama of the sinking of RMS Titanic in April 1912.

About this title

About the Author

Morgan Robertson was an American writer best known for his novel Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan, a prescient novel published in 1898 about the catastrophic sinking of an unsinkable ocean liner, eerily similar to the sinking of the Titanic fourteen years later. Robertson also penned The Submarine Destroyer, Three Laws and the Golden Rule, and the short story Beyond the Spectrum, which described a future war between the United States and the Empire of Japan. Morgan Robertson died in 1915.

Review

Even stranger is another story included in this ebook: Beyond the Spectrum

This story describes a futuristic war fought with aircraft that carried what he called "sun bombs". These bombs were so powerful that with one brilliant flash of blinding light, one single bomb could destroy an entire city (much like a nuclear bomb ).

N. B.: When this story was written, airplanes were still tiny, dangerous machines that could barely carry one man and was decades before the Germans started their "heavy water" experiments, trying to construct a nuclear device.

In addition, this future war begins in the month of December when the Japanese stage a sneak attack on Hawaii.

It appears that the author was visionary of sorts.

--Am. Library Assoc.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1542453283
• ISBN 13: 9781542453288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254