You educated people may have known this, but since I am an ignorant hick, I did not, and I found it rather fascinating.
The munchkin and I are reading a scholastic reader type of book called SOS Titanic. It's a mix of fact and fiction, rather like the movie.
Anyways, in the book, one of the passengers is freaked about the ship, because he thinks it is too much like a book he read 14 years ago. He is only on the Titanic to make his wife happy. The little scholastic book names the book that freaked him. It calls it Futility, and says it was written 14 years ago (from that time) about a ship called the Titan.
The boy wanted to know if there was really a book about that, so I googled it. Scroll to about the 2/3rs mark of this page, and look at the comparison. It's pretty damned eerie.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/keesree/intro.htm