What are the best stories about people being lost?

I mean anything. Books, TV shows, short stories, video games, novels, films, comic books, aficionadofic, aficionadofilms, true stories, etc et al.

Genre can be anything, ala my thread's tags

Some of my picks are "Gilligan's Island", "Land of the Giants" & "Star Trek: Voyager".

I've never seen LOST

Your choices>

 

Robinson Crusoe! It's hard to beat the classics.

 

Space: 1999
Red Dwarf
Lost

Some of my favourites.

 

Battlestar Galatctica.

Also, the film "Walkabout" from 1971.
E.T.
Starman
Blair Witch Project
Ladies in Lavendar
Time Bandits
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
The Black Stallion
Lord of the Flies
Rabbit Proof Fence

 

Thought we were looking for the best?

 

^^ Hey!!!

 

LostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLostLost

You should really see it.

 

Alas, there are no cloaked jump-jets.

 

Quit wasting your time with crappy TV shows and go watch Lost.

 

But there are time-traveling bunnies.

 

A thousand times yes to both of these.

Also:
The Prisoner
Bring the Jubilee

 

I still fail to see what the big deal about lost is...

Giligans Island is a million times better in my opinion

 

One book that comes to mind regarding this is Into Thin Air, it's about a Mount Everest expedition that went horribly wrong (non-fiction). I read it years ago, and found it quite impressive.

 

Orphans In the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague DeCamp

The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein

Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster

Milo and Otis (Hey, what can I say-its a cute movie)

The Bear (one of the best movies without dialogue ever)

Alien Nation

and let's not forget ST:Enterprise. That show was lost from the word, "Go".

 

I used to think that way.


Then I watched it.


Now, I feel foolish.

 

No love for The Wizard of Oz?

 

Best advice I've seen in this forum in quite some time.

 

Couldn't agree more.

There is no point in resorting to any of the others mentioned until you have at least given this show a good try.

Same here. Once I determined to give it a serious try, I couldn't stop watching it. And was sorry I hadn't been watching it all along.

 

For those who like the "lost-on-an-island-where-weird-shit-is-going-down" genre, I'd recommend Island by horror-suspense writer Richard Laymon.

 

If you don't mind books for young adults, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is pretty good.