Though The X-Files has occasionally referenced the younger days of David Duchovny's Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Scully, it has usually just been looks at their childhoods. Now a pair of young adult books is aiming to explore their formative teenage days.
X-Files: Origins, which will hit shelves both physical and digital in January next year, so far comprises two books: Agent Of Chaos and Devil's Advocate. Both stories are set in the spring of 1979 as serial murders, occult happenings and government conspiracies were spiraling through the news. Both characters experience life-changing events that send them on the path to their FBI futures.
Agent Of Chaos, about a 17-year-old Mulder, is by Beautiful Creatures' Kami Garcia, while Devil's Advocate, following a 15-year-old Scully is being written by Jonathan Mayberry, who has written both books and Marvel Comics.
We're not 100% sure the world needs that much more information about why Mulder and Scully became the people they are, but we'll wait and see. Now, though, we want Skinner: Badass From Birth.
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