Story 24: "To Carthage Then I Came" by Annakovsky

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Another weird mostly-non-MSR story nominated by me. Note the warning!

Title: To Carthage Then I Came
Author: annakovsky
Rating: R
Pairings: Mulder/Samantha, Mulder/Scully, implied Scully/Doggett
WARNINGS: INCEST, more or less. SO BE AWARE.
Summary: Clones of Mulder's sister Samantha are being terminated. Mulder tries to save them.

Comments

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

What I'm interested in: this is the only fic in the entire X-files fandom (that I've seen) that has gone down the windy incest road. If you look at other fandoms, there's a lot of incest fic floating around. Fic breaks down many taboos, including that one. So... why not more in this fandom? Was the X-files just too early for that breed of radicalism?

I've wondered this too, and I think you're right that it was just too early for it to become a major theme. This is the only story I've read that has Mulder/Samantha as a major plot point. There are a few little flirtations with the idea in the "Iolokus" series, but that is so long that there are a few flirtations with just about everything in there!

This leads me to another (completely unrelated) point: has anyone else noticed that X-files fic written now differs greatly from that written during the original run of the show?

finisterre discussed this a bit during one of our earlier discussions.

http://community.livejournal.com/xf_book_club/2669.html?thread=40557#t40557