Completed Anthology Submission: Outside In X-Files

Last week, I completed my contribution to the upcoming anthology Outside In X-Files (title likely to change) to be published by ATB Publishing, in 2020.

I wrote my contribution based on Season 2, Episode 4 (Sleepless), where Mulder and a new partner (Alex Krycek) investigate the murders of two doctors and a marine, who were part of a sleep deprivation experiment 25 years earlier. You can watch a promo of this episode below.

BTW, I watched Sleepless as well as the previous five episodes to get back into the swing of the X-Files. What great memories it brought back. The below is classic mid-90s television advertising…

…and this completely awesome interview with Chris Carter about the episode (which would have been immensely helpful when writing my contribution, if I hadn’t discovered it 5 seconds ago)

This is my fourth contribution to the Outside In series and I look forward to the next one. You can purchase each of the previous three I have been involved with, from ATB Publishing directly and the URLs are below:

• Outside In Gains a Soul: Celebrating two decades of Angel as well as Firefly, OUTSIDE IN GAINS A SOUL is a collection of 127 reviews, one for every story of each show, plus a few extras.
• Outside In Takes a Stab: Celebrating over 25 years of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, OUTSIDE IN TAKES A STAB is a collection of 139 reviews, one for every story of the television series, plus the movie and a couple extras.
• Outside In Makes It So: Celebrating 30 years of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Outside In Makes It So is a collection of 174 reviews, one for every story of the show, the four movies and a few bonus extras. Well, we say “reviews,” but we mean that loosely: within these pages, you’ll find scripts, recipes, a Monty Python sketch, a psych test, gossip columns, newspaper ads, a sitcom, a eulogy and a daily log from Riker’s beard (this is my contribution 🙂 ), not to mention insightful and thoughtful articles examining Picard-era Star Trek from just about every angle imaginable…and then some!

I also provided proofreading for a couple of these, as well as the following, which is a fantastic read, even for non-Doctor Who fans (all three of you):

• BOOKWYRM: An Unauthorised & Unconventional Guide to the Doctor Who Novels, Volume 1: This is an episode guide to a series of episodes that never were. With trivia, thematic discussions, plot holes, continuity notes, reviews and much more on all 61 New Adventures, this book is serious and not-at-all serious, thoughtful and disrespectful, accessible to newcomers and equally informative to those who can tell you fifteen unknown facts about Paul Cornell.