Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting over in J. J. Abrams' Lost

Annotation Credited With Bringing The Supernatural And Science-fiction Back To Mainstream Television, Lost Is The Television Show Everyone Is Talking About. No One Is Without An Opinion As To What Is Really Happening On The Island, Even When Every Episode Presents More And More Mysteries. Here, Experts Join The Fray: Why Did Boone Have To Die? Who (or What) Are The Others? Are They In Purgatory, A Different Dimension Or Some Stage Of Dante's Hell? What's With The Polar Bears And Swirling Black Mists? Essays On These Questions And A Multitude Of Others Are Contributed By Sex Experts, Psychologists, Renowned Science Fiction Authors And Sociologists - Who All Provide Surprising Insights Into The Show That Will Keep The Fans Buzzing. Introduction / Orson Scott Card -- Game Theory / Joyce Millman -- Staying Lost / Charlie W. Starr -- Same Damn Island / Adam-troy Castro -- Lost Book Club / Bill Spangler -- Oceanic Tales: Have You Been Framed? / Evelyn Vaughn -- All Hail Hurley! / Nick Mamatas -- Lost In Love / Lani Diane Rich -- There Are No Coincidences / Leigh Adams Wright -- Cosmic Vertigo On The Isle Of Lost / Barry Vacker -- Doubt, Descartes, And Evil Geniuses / Robert Burke Richardson -- Oops / Clayton Davis -- Lost Connections / G. O. Likeskill -- Double-locked / Amy Berner -- Art Of Leadership / Glenn Yeffeth -- Who's Who And What's What For Everybody Who Is Lost / Wayne Allen Sallee. Edited By Orson Scott Card. Includes Bibliographical References.