Morgan Robertson 4 hr 53 min read

A battleship drifts through the midnight, stripped to bare steel and waiting for daybreak to find the enemy, as new terrors, submarines and airships, gather at the edge of a coming war.

Morgan Robertson's 1914 collection ('Over the Border') gathers his prophetic naval and speculative tales. Vivid, forward-looking period fiction. Read it for the eerily predictive sea-and-science stories of a writer famous for foreseeing disasters, on the eve of the Great War.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 53 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).