Before the Titanic ever sailed, Morgan Robertson imagined a ship called the Titan. First published in 1898 and later revised, The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility became one of the most remarkable works of early speculative fiction. Robertson envisioned a massive ocean liner celebrated for its size, speed, and supposed invulnerability, only to meet catastrophe after encountering an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Fourteen years later, RMS Titanic was lost on April 15, 1912, giving Robertson's story an enduring and unsettling place in maritime and literary history. Published on April 15, 2027, exactly 115 years after the Titanic disaster, this collector's edition presents Futility as both a haunting historical curiosity and a lasting warning about hubris, technological confidence, risk, and human fallibility. The 115th Anniversary Titanic Collector's Edition is part of The Official Autograph Facsimile Edition® series by Open Kimono Publishing. It combines a carefully formatted modern reading edition of Futility with a high-resolution facsimile of the rare 1912 Autograph Edition, preserving its historic layout, typography, title material, and Morgan Robertson's facsimile signature. Concise annotations explore the striking parallels between the fictional Titan and the Titanic while providing context on maritime engineering, navigation, safety practices, corporate ambition, and early twentieth-century ideas of progress.

A new foreword and introduction examine Robertson, the Titanic disaster, and the extraordinary afterlife of Futility, while a provocative afterword considers why Robertson's warning still resonates in a world shaped by powerful institutions, rapid innovation, and confidence in systems believed too advanced to fail. This edition is devoted exclusively to Futility. The unrelated stories included in the original 1912 volume have been omitted, allowing Robertson's most famous work to stand alone in a focused collector's presentation. Ideal for Titanic historians, maritime enthusiasts, rare-book collectors, educators, students, and readers of classic speculative fiction, this edition offers both a modern reading experience and direct access to the visual character of the historic 1912 printing. More than a century later, The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility still unsettles because its deepest warning was never only about a ship. One hundred and fifteen years after Titanic, the warning remains.