I've been interested in the Titanic since its discovery in 1985. I started seriously researching Titanic in 1997 when I was a teenager, and began collecting books, which by now has turned into a large library.
There is one book in my collection that still baffles me to this day. It is a short novel called "Futility" or "The Wreck of the Titan", written in 1898 by Morgan Robertson.
Robertson was an American writer and what some considered to be somewhat of a psychic due to his eerie predictions of future events in his short but compelling stories.
In 1914, two years after the Titanic disaster, Robertson released a new version of "Futility" in a volume that also included "Beyond the Spectrum", a story of America and Japan going to war after Japan conducts a sneak attack on an American fleet of ships. Strangely similar to an event that would happen at Pearl Harbor 27 years later.
Was Morgan Robertson just a very good writer, or was he something more?