X-Files Book Club

Fourteen stories in 28 days. Are you ready?

Our first selection is the perfect way to start our mini-fic marathon. "Our Mulders" was nominated by littlegreen42. Written way back in 1997, it is the first in a group of short-short stories Punk came to name the "Ours" series. "And in changing them, we made them ours." I see it as a love-letter to Fox Mulder and to fan-fiction writers for The X-Files.

"Our Mulders"

Posted two years later, "Our Scullys" is a little darker, a little more painful to read, at least for me, and surprisingly prescient, given the ending of the series.

"Our Scullys"

The links are to Archive of Our Own, where you can read the rest of the series, and everything else Punk has written, too.

I think Livia Balaban's metafic is sweet, slyly funny, and wise to the ways of fandom. It makes me nostalgic for what I never got to experience firsthand: being a Phile, back during the heyday of The X-Files.

Classification: Metafic; C with a nonexistent television series
Content: H, A, MSR
Rating: R and a half
Spoilers: A few, through late S8. No further.
Summary: Some excerpts from "Sunday Snaps" days on the 'SETI Troopers' fanfic list.

M. Luder, King of "SETI Troopers" Fanfic

Let the author know what you think, let us know what you think, and please, make your suggestions for next time.