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Post by andydecker on Jan 20, 2023 9:50:41 GMT
Charles L. Grant - The X-Files: Goblins (HarperPrism, 1994, 277 pages)  According to some interview I seem to remember reading many years ago Charles L. Grant became such a fan of the show that he wanted to write a novel about it and managed to get the X-Files book franchise off the ground.
Compared to other tv franchises the X-Files never managed to get a hold on the book-market. Where Buffy and of course Star Trek put whole libraries on the market, the X-Files just managed to get 6 novels published. Only in comics the ranchise had some successes. Opinions vary of course, but the gist is that none of the novels are really good. I read it but have no recollection whatsoever about it.
Still this is one of Grant's biggest international successes.
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Post by 𝓒𝓵𝓮𝓪 on Jan 20, 2023 12:19:07 GMT
According to some interview I seem to remember reading many years ago Charles L. Grant became such a fan of the show that he wanted to write a novel about it and managed to get the X-Files book franchise off the ground.
Compared to other tv franchises the X-Files never managed to get a hold on the book-market. Where Buffy and of course Star Trek put whole libraries on the market, the X-Files just managed to get 6 novels published. Only in comics the ranchise had some successes. Opinions vary of course, but the gist is that none of the novels are really good. I read it but have no recollection whatsoever about it.
Still this is one of Grant's biggest international successes.
Oddly, while adult orientated fiction is lacking, its not the case with X-Files fiction aimed at young people. You would think its audience would be a more mature one. There are 16 of The X-Files: Young Adult Series listed on goodreads, and there are also 10 books in The X-Files: Middle Grade Series. The first in this series is a novelisation of the pilot episode. I only know this as I saw one around somewhere once.  |
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 20, 2023 13:03:56 GMT
According to some interview I seem to remember reading many years ago Charles L. Grant became such a fan of the show that he wanted to write a novel about it and managed to get the X-Files book franchise off the ground.
Compared to other tv franchises the X-Files never managed to get a hold on the book-market. Where Buffy and of course Star Trek put whole libraries on the market, the X-Files just managed to get 6 novels published. Only in comics the ranchise had some successes. Opinions vary of course, but the gist is that none of the novels are really good. I read it but have no recollection whatsoever about it.
Still this is one of Grant's biggest international successes.
Oddly, while adult orientated fiction is lacking, its not the case with X-Files fiction aimed at young people. You would think its audience would be a more mature one. There are 16 of The X-Files: Young Adult Series listed on goodreads, and there are also 10 books in The X-Files: Middle Grade Series. The first in this series is a novelisation of the pilot episode. I only know this as I saw one around somewhere once. Yes! Years before I ever watched the show I had the novelization of the episode “Darkness Falls” which I found deliciously scary; I also read the one based on the episode “DPO” |
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Post by dem bones on Jan 21, 2023 18:51:10 GMT
Compared to other tv franchises the X-Files never managed to get a hold on the book-market. Where Buffy and of course Star Trek put whole libraries on the market, the X-Files just managed to get 6 novels published. Only in comics the ranchise had some successes. Jane Goldman, wife of veteran TV presenter Jonathan Ross, did well over here with two volumes of The X-Files: Book of the Unexplained; not read them in an age, but remember liking both a lot. Second includes a decent biblio at back, too. Jane Goldman - The X-Files: Book of the Unexplained: Vol 1 (Simon & Schuster, 1995) Acknowledgements
Introduction
Beyond the Grave
Unfinished Business
Reincarnation
The Borrowers
Unnatural Abilities
Beyond the Five Senses
Up in Flames
Biological Oddities
Weird Nature
Human Enigmas
Feral Humans
Ancient Beliefs
The Shapes of Fear
Leaps of Faith
20th Century Threats and Paranoias
Artificial Intelligence
Genetic Tampering
A Cosmic Conundrum
The UFO Experience
Alien Territory
Trust No-one
A Celestial Fleet
Fallen Angels
Investigating the Unexplained
In Search of the Truth
The Real X-FilesBlurb: Many of our ideas spring from actual accounts, essays, pieces in journals that we expand by positing "what if"" — Chris Carter, Series Creator, The X-Files
From Lands End to Los Angeles, The X-Files is indisputably the hottest show on television.
And while the show is a compelling fictional drama, it is enthralling to consider that the majority of episodes have been inspired by real-life phenomena, legends, conspiracies and urban-mythology.
Whether you're an open-minded Mulder-type or a pragmatic Scully, The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, invites you to don your trench-coat and explore this extraordinary and thrilling world of ours, in search of the truth.
The X-Files Book of the Unexplained is an in-depth guide to the mysteries of the paranormal and unexplained which are the basis of the fictional television episodes. It covers every aspect of the strange including UFO sightings, landings, alien encounters, government cover-ups, psychic crime solving, faith healing, spontaneous combustion, feral humans, freaks of nature, ghosts and hauntings, reincarnation, a parade of thoroughly modern threats and much, much more.
Each chapter is sparked off by the phenomena contained in The X-Files and features stills from the show, interviews with The X-Files cast and creative team and astonishing revelations from the world's leading investigators, scientists and officials.
The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, an X-Files guide to the unknown, is a book no X-Files fan or inquisitive reader can afford to miss.Jane Goldman - The X-Files: Book of the Unexplained: Vol 2 (Simon & Schuster, 1996) Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Life Outside the Mortal Form
Hallucinogenic Journeys
Perchance to Dream
Between Two Worlds
Human Enigmas
Miraculous Wounds
Looking Into the Abyss
Physical Anomalies
Psychic Detectives
Lake Monsters
Weird World
More Weird Nature
Electric Skies
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?
Ancient Beliefs
Native American Wonders
The Night Stalkers
A Dark Collusion
Voodoo
Written in the Stars
20th Century Threats and Paranoias
Conspiracy
Mind Control
Urban Legends
Mass Hysteria and the Belief Engine
The Frontiers of Reality
A Cosmic Conundrum
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Alien Abduction
Investigating the Unexplained
Inside the FBI
In Search of the Truth
Episode Guide
The X-Files Mythology
BibliographyBlurb: From its inception as a cult hit, The X-Files has risen to stratospheric heights to become a full-blown phenomenon, credited not only with changing the face of television as we know it, but with sparking a massive resurgence of interest in the unknown.
Viewers hungry for the facts behind the subjects raised in the show's first series found what they sought in the number one best-selling first volume of The X-Files Book of the Unexplained.
The search for the truth continues...
Many of our ideas spring from actual accounts, essays, pieces in journals that we expand by positing "what if"" — Chris Carter, Series Creator, The X-Files
An indispensable addition to the bookshelves of the X-Files fan and the inquisitive reader alike, The X- Files Book of the Unexplained Volume Two provides insight into behind-the-scenes research on the show, and in-depth guides to the real events, phenomena and folklore which inspired the fictional stories in series two and series three.
Among the mysteries, curiosities and 20th century nightmares, you'll find astral travel, near-death experiences, stigmata, serial-killing, cannibalism and other deviant behaviours, Native American wonders, psychic abilities and thought transference, freaks of nature, strange rains and other bizarre natural phenomena, animal mysteries, urban legends, vampires, the occult, voodoo, zombies, curses, astrology, conspiracy and cover-up, mind-control, covert tests and experiments, weird physics, alien abduction syndrome and the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Each chapter features stills from the show, interviews with The X-Files ' creative team, reports from the cutting-edge of paranormal research and remarkable revelations from the world's leading investigators, scientists and officials.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 22, 2023 12:54:54 GMT
Jane Goldman - The X-Files: Book of the Unexplained: Vol 1 (Simon & Schuster, 1995) I also own the Goldman, alongside a couple of season guides and whatnot. Back then I even bought the seasons on video for an ungodly price.
As it is still constantly re-run on some or other channel, I watched a few eps after a long time again. Hard going. A lot of this hasn't aged well. I mean, I didn't watch the last seasons when they came out because the story didn't made sense any longer and I had lost interest. It became tiresome. With hindsight watching it again is even more difficult. It is hard to muster enough sense of disbelief when you know that every Conspiracy episode from season 3 onward is going nowhere. The only ones I liked were the stand alone stories.
Recently I put season 2 of Millennium into the player, and while I can understand that many people didn't like it, I thought it still great.
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 22, 2023 13:26:39 GMT
I finally got around to watching the show this past year and made it to the beginning of Season 7 when I had to tap out. My understanding is that of seasons 7-9 (leaving aside the reboot seasons) there's probably a season's worth of great material still in there, but that it gets to be slow going, and that by the time you get to S9 there's no hope left at any rate.
Still and all, a great show--S3 is one of my favorite seasons of any show in television.
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