Futility
Futility or Futile may refer to: *''Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan'', an 1898 novel * "Futility" (poem), 1918 poem by Wilfred Owen * ''Futile'' (EP), a 2003 EP album by Porcupine Tree * ''Futility'' (album), a 2004 album of the industrial death metal band DÅÅTH *''Futility'', a 1922 novel by William Gerhardie William Alexander Gerhardie OBE FRSL (21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977) was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright. His first novel, ''Futility'' (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting the Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia. Life ...

Futility, Or The Wreck Of The Titan
''The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility'' is a novella written by Morgan Robertson and published as ''Futility'' in 1898, and revised as ''The Wreck of the Titan'' in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner ''Titan'' that sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The ''Titan'' and its sinking are famous for similarities to the passenger ship and its sinking 14 years later. After the sinking of the ''Titanic'' the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage. Plot The first half of ''Futility'' introduces hero John Rowland, a disgraced former US Navy officer. Now an alcoholic denigrated to the lowest ranks of society, he has been dismissed from the Navy and works as a deckhand on the ''Titan''. One April night, the ship hits an iceberg and sinks, somewhat before the mid-point of the novel. The second half of the story follows Rowland as he saves the young daughter of a former lover by jumping onto the iceberg with her. The ...
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Futility (poem)
"Futility" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most renowned poets of World War I. The poem was written in May 1918 and published as no. 153 in ''The Complete Poems and Fragments''. The poem is well known for its departure from Owen's famous style of including disturbing and graphic images in his work; the poem instead has a more soothing, somewhat light-hearted feel to it in comparison. A previous secretary of the Wilfred Owen Association argues that the bitterness in Owen's other poems "gives place to the pity that characterises his finest work". Futility details an event where a group of soldiers attempts to revive an unconscious soldier by moving him into the warm sunlight on a snowy meadow. However, the "kind old sun" cannot help the soldier - he has died. The titular theme of the poem is claimed to be common to many World War I and World War II war poets and to apply not only to war, but human institutions (including religion) and human existence itself. Noting the ...
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Futility (album)
Futility or Futile may refer to: *''Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan'', an 1898 novel * "Futility" (poem), 1918 poem by Wilfred Owen * ''Futile'' (EP), a 2003 EP album by Porcupine Tree * ''Futility'' (album), a 2004 album of the industrial death metal band DÅÅTH *''Futility'', a 1922 novel by William Gerhardie William Alexander Gerhardie OBE FRSL (21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977) was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright. His first novel, ''Futility'' (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting the Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia. Life a ...

Futile (EP)
The following is a listing of officially released works by the English band Porcupine Tree. The band has released eleven major studio albums and 7 EPs, as well as many limited editions and revamped material. At the time Steven Wilson was going to sign to the Delerium label, he owned a lot of material recorded during the mid- and later '80s that he had recorded subsequently on three demo tapes - '' Tarquin's Seaweed Farm'', ''Love, Death & Mussolini'' and ''The Nostalgia Factory''. He sent copies of those tapes to people he felt would be interested in the recordings, asking them to spread the word. Delerium originally intended to release all of that material in a double debut album, but Wilson decided to just pick the songs he considered the best ones. These songs were mastered to make Porcupine Tree's first studio album, ''On the Sunday of Life...'' (1992); all of the leftover tracks would be later released on a compilation album called ''Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape'' (1994). R ...
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