Fanlore's Journal

There is a difference though between the trope of characters trapped in a small space (cavefic) and characters stranded and cut off from their support network a la Robinson Crusoe but not trapped in a small space (like desert island fic, or the scores of fic stranding a couple on a planet forcing them to live off the land or whatever). One is short term with close physical proximity and often injury, the other is long term and about isolation and survival stuff.