The novel Futility describes the tragic voyage of the "Titan," the largest ocean liner in existence at the time. The ship was described as unsinkable, but a collision with an iceberg near Newfoundland on a tragic April night laid that myth to rest. Due to an insufficient number of lifeboats and a failure to launch many of those which were available, the loss of life was high.
Although some have labeled the book as being a thinly-disguised historical novel based on the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, they usually drop this accusation when they find out that Futility was first published in 1898 and that its description of the Titanic disaster was nothing but a remarkable coincidence.
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