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Lost Explorer

(permanent link) added: 2011-02-27 06:20:22 sponsor: rlkitterman edited by: Catbert (last reply: 2012-02-18 14:01:54)

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Also Lost Expedition. Many years ago, an explorer led an expedition into the wilderness. He has since vanished. Usually, some artifact of his turns up years later, leading the hero to try to find the missing explorer or expedition. This can be in the desert, the jungle, the sea, or Siberia. It can also be Recycled In Space, where there is a lost Cool Spaceship that vanished many years ago.

Examples

In the Kir Bulychev book The Mystery Of Urulgan, a young English woman searches for an explorer who vanished in Siberia many years ago.
In Congo by Michael Crichton, the Congo expedition is attacked by gorillas, and the heroes go searching for them.
In Event Horizon, the hyperdrive on the ship sent it to hell, and it Came Back Wrong.

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