Book · 2018 · Fiction
Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan
Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson has been mentioned in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts (0 episodes recommend it and 3 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Ben Bowlin (1 episode) and Dave Portnoy (1 episode) on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know (1 episode), The Joe Rogan Experience (1 episode) and Timcast IRL (1 episode).
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In a novel written in 1898 known as futility or wreck of the Titan it was a guy named Morgan Robertson and 14 years before the Titanic met his demise he wrote a novel that had a lot of similarities to what happened to the Titanic.
The best things said about it
A short novel called the futility the wreck of the Titan published in the US writer Morgan Robertson a novel that tells the story of the world's largest passenger ship the Titan and how it sank after hitting an iceberg.
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Why people recommend it
Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson is a late nineteenth-century novella that tells the fictional story of a massive British ocean liner named the Titan, which strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic despite carrying an insufficient number of lifeboats. Dave Portnoy brought up the book on The Joe Rogan Experience by reading from an article that detailed Robertson's work and its eerie narrative parallels. Tim Pool discussed the background of the novella on Timcast IRL, noting that the famous historical ocean liner disaster was closely mirrored by Robertson's fictional vessel. Similarly, Ben Bowlin explored the novella on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know during an episode on Titanic conspiracies, highlighting that the book was published fourteen years before the actual maritime disaster and shared numerous uncanny similarities with the real-life tragedy. Across these podcast appearances, the speakers used Robertson's eerie work to examine strange historical coincidences and the enduring public fascination with maritime lore, predictive fiction, and the hubris of modern engineering surrounding the ill-fated luxury liner.
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Ben Bowlin in a novel written in 1898 known as futility or wreck of the Titan it was a guy named Morgan Robertson and… 1
“in a novel written in 1898 known as futility or wreck of the Titan it was a guy named Morgan Robertson and 14 years before the Titanic met his demise he wrote a novel that had a lot of similarities to what happened to the Titanic”
Dave Portnoy a short novel called the futility the wreck of the Titan published in the US writer Morgan Robertson a nove… 1
“a short novel called the futility the wreck of the Titan published in the US writer Morgan Robertson a novel that tells the story of the world's largest passenger ship the Titan and how it sank after hitting an iceberg”
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“so the Titan is actually based on a book called futility the Titanic is based on the Titan from futility”