Wreck of the Titan

I did a quick skim of the /x/ catalog but didn't click on anything. I did notice that one of the images had the word TITAN in big letters but didn't really process it beyond that.

Less than half an hour later, I was doing some fairly mindless work and wanted to listen to something in the background, so I checked YouTube. The algorithm suggested a month-old video from Whitley Strieber called "Mind Blowing Synchronicities," so I thought why not.

One of Whitley's guests, Trish MacGregor, tells the story of how she wrote a novel that ended up foreshadowing Hurricane Andrew. Starting at  around the 16:43 mark, Whitley comments:

Well, you know, this is certainly not the only book that's done that. Of course the famous, famous one is Wreck of the Titan, published 1898, which is about the sinking -- there's no other way to put it -- it's about the sinking of the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic took place in 1912, fourteen years later.

That Titan reference sent me back to the /x/ catalog to try to track down that image I had seen.

Sure enough, it's the cover of The Wreck of the Titan, the same book mentioned by Whitley.