Jon McGoran’s “Drive Time” is only one of two X-Files stories (that I can immediately think of) that deals with the idea of time travel. When the body of the young boy is found decomposing, normally-skeptic Scully is forced to admit that something supernatural is going on. Agents Mulder and Scully suspect that something is not quite right about a young boy who is found wandering in the woods, days after going missing. Kelley Armstrong’s “Dead Ringer” is a creepy story about changelings, supernatural creatures that assume the form of the recently murdered and torment the murderers until they are driven insane. The three best stories, by default or design, happen to be, in my opinion, the first three stories in the book. Not that the up-and-comers in this volume are in any way less deserving of recognition. Anderson, Max Allen Collins, Brian Keene, or Heather Graham in this volume. Missing, unfortunately, are the seriously well-known authors that at least provided some headliner status in the first volume. While there are no real stand-outs within this collection, the stories are at least entertaining and do a good job of attempting to capture what was special about the TV show. The stories in this anthology, also edited by Maberry, are a mixed bag, ranging in quality from mediocre to decent. Thankfully, these mistakes are avoided in “The X-Files Volume 2: The Truth is Out There”. Volume one was plagued with a plethora of completely unacceptable typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors that should have been caught before going to print. Editor Jonathon Maberry did a decent job of finding good writers for the anthology, but he did a horrible job of actually editing. Volume one, “Trust No One”, would have been a much more exciting entry into the oeuvre of X-Files fiction-and it was, don’t get me wrong-had it not been for some extremely egregious editorial mistakes. In the meantime, IDW Publishing has released three volumes of short story anthologies by some well-known and some fairly unknown writers working in the field of science fiction/fantasy/horror and YA. Which, unfortunately, means we still have several months to wait, I’m sure. Recently, FOX announced that a new ten-episode season was in production for late 2017 or early 2018. Thankfully, the schmucks at FOX finally came to their senses. The confusion and hurt that us X-Philes were feeling was palpable and real. If fans were feeling verklempt in any way, it was due to the fact that the season only ran six episodes and it ended on the mother of all cliff-hangers, without knowing whether the show was going to be renewed for the fall. It was, to the faithful, much like returning to the Holy Land. X-Philes (to the goyim, this word refers to anyone who loved the TV show “The X-Files” with a fanaticism that bordered on the religious) rejoiced when FOX brought back the series in 2016.
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