Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan is Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella about the unsinkable ship Titan, which goes down after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Disgraced former naval lieutenant John Rowland is working as a deckhand on the Ti...
Twelve of Robertson's well-crafted sea stories telling tales of man and his relationship to the ocean, good and bad.This collection includes:WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREADTHE BRAIN OF THE BATTLE-SHIPTHE WIGWAG MESSAGETHE TRADE-WINDSALVAGEBETWEEN THE MILL...
Morgan Robertson wrote many stories taking place on the high seas. This collection includes ten of them:The Grain ShipFrom the Darkness and the DepthsNoah's ArkThe Finishing TouchThe RockThe ArgonautsThe Married ManThe Triple AllianceShovels and Bric...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
A lucky collection of thirteen stories by Morgan Robertson. While most are solidly built around his knowledge of the high seas and the characters to be found on them at the turn of the 20th century, a couple border on steampunk science fiction in the...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
So much of my time is given to reading boys' books that, when I read books for grown-ups, now and again I find myself saying, -What a bully story for boys to read - Latterly, I have been putting down the titles of such stories. When the list began to...
This early work by Morgan Robertson was originally published in 1913 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'From the Darkness and the Depths' is a short story about a aged former seaman who tells the tal...
The Grain Ship (1914) is a collection of short stories by Morgan Roberston. Published a year before the author’s death, The Grain Ship compiles works of short fiction originally published in Harper’s Monthly, New Story Magazine, and The S...
She was the largest, fastest, and latest thing in seagoing destroyers, and though the specifications called for but thirty-six knots' speed, she had made thirty-eight on her trial trip, and later, under careful nursing by her engineers, she had incre...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Morgan Robertson (1861-1915) was a well-known American author of short stories and novels, and the possible inventor of the periscope. Nowadays he is best known for the short fictional novel The Wreck of the Titan; or, Futility, first published in 18...