of drowning in the ice cold ocean. Later, her husband plans a sailing trip from England to its destination in New York on the passenger ship Titanic. In the end of the show, host John Newland references Morgan Robertson in the similarities of his 1898 novella The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility to the actual Titanic. In the 1996 PC Game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, while taking a tour of the Titanic in the Turkish Baths, the character Trask describes and shows the character the book Futility'' and references how it gives him an ominous feeling about the ship. References External links "Periscope Inventor Dead", Renfrew Mercury, Friday, April 2, 1915, p. 7 "The Titanic – Futility" at HistoryOnTheNet.com (archived 2012-12-22) – tabular data on the fictional and real ships Online editions Wreck of The Titan/Futility by Morgan Robertson Primordial, and Three Laws and the Golden Rule by Morgan Robertson Read Books Online Website Online Library (many original scans of Robertson's work) 1861 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists American male novelists Drug-related deaths in New Jersey Novelists from New York (state) American male short story writers 19th-century American short story writers 19th-century American male writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Cooper Union alumni