X-Files Frequently Asked Questions - Part 7 Taken from the Internet Originated by Special Agent In Charge: Special Agent Pat Gonzales gonza006@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Internet) or LauraHolt@aol.com (America Online) @~Concluded from Issue 51 *Books/comics* Original novels are being published by HarperPrism. The first two X Files books were written by noted horror/fantasy writer Charles L. Grant. The first X Files book was _The X Files: Goblins_, ISBN 0-06-105414-3. The second book is entitled _Whirlwind_, ISBN 0-06-105415-1. An announced third book from Grant, _Hunter_, was dropped from the list and will not be published. Kevin J. Anderson, most known for his Star Wars: Jedi Academy books, will be taking over as writer of the X Files novels. His first novel "Ground Zero" is out, in hardcover. The ISBN number for this book is 0-06-05223X; cost is $20. The audiocassette of this book is read by Gillian Anderson herself. Cost is $17, ISBN is 06-945-1620-1. Anderson is reportedly working on a second book, tentatively titled "Ruins," due out later this spring. The ISBN number is 0-06-105247-7; the audiocasette version's ISBN is 0-69451-688-0. A series of paperbacks based on the episodes aimed at a younger (10 and older) audience is out in the children's sections of your local bookstore. Titles are #1 - "X Files: X Marks The Spot" (based on the script for the pilot), ISBN 006440613x; #2 - "X Files: Darkness Falls" (based on the script for that first-season episode), ISBN 0064406148. The third book, "X Files: Tiger, Tiger" (based on the second-season episode "Fearful Symmetry"), is now out, ISBN 0-06-440626-1. Author for these first 3 is Les Martin. Ellen Steiber is the author for #4, "X FIles: Squeeze" (based on the script for that episode), ISBN 0-06-105247-7, due out this month. #5 is "X FIles: Humbug," with author Martin, due out in April (ISBN 0-06-440627-x). #6, due out in May is "X Files: Shapes," written by Steiber, ISBN 0-06-440633-4. And due out in June is #7, "X Files: Fear" (don't know which episode this is based on), written by Martin, with ISBN 0-06-4406423. HarperCollins had come out with _The Truth Is Out There: The X Files Companion_, dealing with the various aspects of the show. The ISBN is 0-06-105330-9. The book is currently on the New York Times Best Sellers List. A second nonfiction book, published by Crown and called _The Unofficial X Files Companion_ , is available. Author is Ngaire Genge. The ISBN is 0-517-88601-4. A third nonfiction book, _The X-Files Book of the Unexplained: Volume 1_, is available in Britain and is expected to be available in the future in the U.S. Author is Jane Goldman. British ISBN is 0-684-81633-4. Topps Comics publishes an _X Files_ comic book. The writer is Stefan Petrucha; artist is Charles Adlard; covers by Miran Kim. The first three issues are sold out, and a compilation of these has been released. Comics 4-6 will also appear in a future compilation release. [Topps Copics is an arm of the baseball-card company, and currently produce comic books based on other TV and movie characters as well as the usual superheroes.] The tenth issue has hit the stands. Mark Martinez, 090632@hyperion.lanl.gov, posts an X Files comics update monthly. Topps has released the X Files trading cards. The complete set, which features illustrations and information from Season One, contains 72 regular cards, foil parallel versions of those cards, 6 etched foil comic cover cards, and 4 chromium photo cards. Prices of individual 9-card packets and boxes vary. Topps's Official X Files magazine #1 is out at various media locations. *Videos* Fox is planning on releasing episodes from the first season on tape to the U.S. market on March 26. The pilot and "Deep Throat" are scheduled to be on the first video, "Conduit" and "Ice" on the second, and "Fallen Angel" and "Eve" on the third. They can be reserved in the U.S. at Suncoast Video. The show has been released on video in Japan (Japanese subtitles; first 8 episodes, two tapes per episode, in aired order, have been confirmed as being released). X Files videos were released in Great Britain (two episodes per tape, two tapes per month). Cost is 10.99 pounds. These tapes are PAL tapes and are not compatible with American VCRs. Australians can purchase the Anasazi/Blessing Way/Paperclip trilogy on video before it airs on television. These tapes go under the titles "X FIles: The Unopened Files." These tapes are also available in Great Britain. *Music* An X Files "contributed" CD, with music from various groups and singers and a song co-written by Chris Carter, has been produced by Don Was and is scheduled to be released on March 26. Most recent reports state that the soundtrack CD may be released in the fall. Music director Mark Snow has written the music for 63 movies or miniseries, 7 movies, and 13 television shows (themes and/or episode music), including _Starsky and Hutch_ ('70s television series), _In the Line of Fire_ (movie), _Born to be Wild_ (movie), _Children of the Dust_ (TV miniseries), and _Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All_ (TV miniseries), among others. *Miscellaneous* It has been confirmed that Fox is planning for a big-screen X Files movie to come out tentatively in 1997, and an _X Files_ spinoff is also under consideration. Chris Carter admits that he has been approached to do a spinoff, but denies that one is actively in the works, saying that he wants to concentrate on his current show for the time being. He has admitted to participating in planning sessions for a movie. An X Files phone card is now available. Genesis and SNES game cartridges are being planned for a future release. Landmark has published an X Files calendar (ISBN 0-78-191190-7). NXF Games will be distributing an X Files Collectible Card Game in July 1996. /Fan Club**Fanzines/ *Fan Club* Creation Entertainment is sponsoring The Official X Files Fan Club. For information contact them at 818 / 409-0960, or send a SASE to them at 411 N. Central Ave., #300, Glendale, CA 91203. The fan-run X-Files Fan Club was formed with the sanction of 20th Century Fox and Ten Thirteen Productions in March 1994. A year's subscription is $20 ($30 Canadian). The fan club, a nonprofit organization, produces a newsletter/magazine containing news, interviews, pictures, episode guides, bibliographic information, more information on topics brought up in the show, and other items. Although net-fandom will be well represented (one section of the newsletter will be called "The Buzz from the Net"), the newsletter is targeted at general fandom. Submissions are welcome! Electronic newsletter submissions may be sent to x-files@info.rutgers.edu. A postscript version of the fan club membership application may be ftp'd from ftp.rutgers.edu The file is pub/x-files/membership/flier.ps - for more information, send a SASE to: X Files Fan Club, P.O. Box 3138, Nashau, NH 03061-3138 or X Files Fan Club, c/o S. Bartle, 4404 Perry St., Vancouver, BC Canada V5N 3X5 There are two X Files fan clubs in Australia. One can be reached by writing to: The X Files Fan Club of Australia, P.O. Box 402, Niddrie Vic. 3042. The other can be reached by writing to 11:21 -- the X-Files Fan Club of Australia, c/o Andrew Parkinson. Flat 2/10, Roseglen Street, Green Slopes, QLD 4120, Australia. *Fanzines* NOTE: All listed fanzines are not-for-profit amateur publications and are not meant to infringe on copyrights held by Twentieth Century Fox, Ten Thirteen Productions, Chris Carter, or any other media orgainzations. Deb Walsh (WGYA08A@prodigy.com or deb walsh@aol.com 46 John St. #2, Malden, MA 02148) publishes a fanzine called _The Manifest_ which deals with various paranormal-oriented television shows, including _The X Files_. Issues 2, 3, and 4 have X Files material; issue #4 is currently available. E-mail or send a SASE for more information. _Incident UXP_ is an _X Files_ fanzine being published by Debbie Roberts, P.O. Box 9653, Colorado Springs, CO 80932. Issue #3 is now available. Issue #2 is still available. Issue #1 is sold out. For more information on contributors, or how to submit material, send a SASE to the above address or e-mail to annieorbit@aol.com. Beth Bowles edits a crossover fanzine (characters meet characters from other media universes) called Crossfiles, which will include crossovers with the _X Files_ universe. For information send a SASE to OtherWhen Press, c/o Beth Bowles, 722 Brownstone Rd., Larimer, PA 15647 Mary Wardell is planning an _X Files_ fanzine called "Travels with Mulder." For more details and/or submission guidelines send an SASE to Prime Time Press, c/o Mary F. Wardell, 2104 SE 28th Place, Portland, OR 97214 Betsy Vera is the editor for "X-treme Possibilities" The first issue is available. For more information or submissions guidelines, send a SASE to: Bentley Press, c/o Betsy Vera, P.O. Box 4356, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, or e-mail her at betsy.vera@mailgw.uprod.music.umich.edu "Impossible Dreams" is a Quantum Leap fanzine, but there is an X Files story in it. For more information, send a SASE to Lucy Green, MacWombat Press, 2500 Jackson-Keller #601, San Antonio, TX 78230. "Of Dreams and Schemes" #9 has a long X Files/Highlander crossover. They are also looking for stories for future issues. For more information, send a SASE to Catherine Schlein, 6755 Union St., Arvada, CO 80004. "Remote Control," a multi-fandom genzine, is looking for X Files submissions for issue 5, due out in May 1995. For more information, send a SASE to Kathy Agel, 9-11 Ayres Court, Bayonne, NJ, 07002-3510, or send e-mail to Badkarma1@aol.com. "Layup," an adult fiction zine based on the characters portrayed by David Duchovny, is looking for submissions. Deadline is April 1, 1995. For more information, send a SASE to Debbie Roberts, Hangar X Publishing, P.O. Box 9653, Colorado Spring, CO 80932. "Deus X Machina" is a planned X Files fanzine from Tara O'Shea. For information, send a SASE to Deus X Machina, c/o Tara O'Shea, 611 Lead Ave. SW, Apt. 911, Albuqueraue, NM 87102, or e-mail to johanna@hydra.unm.edu "Property of the FBI" is an X Files fanzine carrying fiction from alt.tv.x-files.creative. For more information, send a SASE to Lucy Green, MacWombat Press, 2500 Jackson-Keller, Apt. 601, San Antonio, TX 78230. Issue #1 is available. "The Skeptic and the Believer," an X Files fanzine, is looking for submissions. Issue 1 will debut at Eclecticon 95 in October of 1995. For more information, send a SASE to Kathryn Agel, 9-11 Ayres Court, Bayonne, NJ 07002-3510, or e-mail Badkarma.1@genie.geis.com or Badkarma1@aol.com. "Imagine That" is looking for X Files contributions. For submission guidelines or zine information, send a SASE to Brenda M. Cunningham, Box 123, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, CANADA S0H 0B0 "First Light" is a multimedia zine that reviews the latest episodes of science fiction oriented shows such as X Files every month, and occasionally prints X Files word games and other tidbits. For infomration send a SASE to First Light, 8782-E Allison Dr., Westminster, CO 80005-1680. "X-Talk" is an X Files letterzine whose first issue premiered in September 1994. Issue #1 is $3 and a 4-issue subscription will run $10, checks payable to Marg Baskin. Letters may be typed or on disks (WordPerfect 6.0/5.1/5.0, WordStar 6.0/4.0/3.3, or ASCII, 3.5 in. or 5.25 high or low density); label disks as they will be returned with your issue. Address letters, inquiries (include a SASE), or suggestions to Anime House Press, c/o Marg Baskin and Heather Bruton, 28 Woolwich St. S., Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA N2K 1R9. They are accessible via e-mail at marg@asd.raytheon.CA "Wrapped in Plastic" (a Twin Peaks fanzine) devoted a full issue to the X Files in August. The 40-page issue contained a complete episode guide with commentary and analysis, map of the U.S. showing where each episode took place, and an interview with Gillian Anderson. The first printing sold out, and a second printing was done. WIP #12 is available from: Win-Mill Productions, 1912 E. Timberview Lane, Arlington, TX 76014. Cost is $6 ($5 plus $1 postage). /Conventions/ Creation Con has a license to run the Official X Files convention. The following dates, places, and guests have been tentatively set up so far: San Diego -- May 11 [Guests unknown]. For more specific information, and a recording of information comcerning the X Files conventions, contact Creation Entertainment at 818 / 409-0960, or send a SASE to them at 411 N. Central Ave., #300, Glendale, CA 91203. /Miscellaneous information/ As a result of an informal poll conducted Spring 94, net.fans of the _The X Files_ have chosen (with a 73% approval rating) to be called X-Philes. The name seems to have caught on in the media, with its use in many articles on the show and its online contacts. There is a list of Mulderisms and Scullyisms being kept by Samuel Ziegler (sam@jhu.edu) and is available through his X Files homepage (listed with FTP Sites and Home Pages) If you cannot access the Web, or wish to submit entries to the lists, please e-mail him. Kymberlee Ricke keeps a "Netpickers Guide to the X Files." For information about the Netpickers' list, e-mail her at kricke@aea16.k12.ia.us. Numbers: The number 11:21 that continues to appear on digital clocks in the show is a salute by Chris Carter to his wife, whose birthday is November 21. Ten Thirteen Productions was named after Carter's own birthday, October 13. Guns: Mulder and Scully have used a variety of guns in their X Files travails, but they currently brandish Smith & Wesson 1056es with a 9mm round. So far Mulder has fired his gun eight times: to scare away wolves [Conduit]; to kill John Barnett [Young at Heart], a beheader about to do in Scully [Our Town], and kidnapper Carl Wade [Oubliette]; at the shapeshifter creature [Shapes]; at a morphing terminator alien [End Game]; at lights casting a potentially lethal shadow [Soft Light]; and at a possible alien being [Little Green Men, though no shot actually left the gun]. Scully has fired her gun five times: three shots to stop the air duct fan [Ghost in the Machine], once to wound Lucas Henry [Beyond the Sea], three shots, to kill [so we thought] Warren Dupre [Lazarus], once at the murdering twin [Humbug] that she saw in a mirror, and once to wound Mulder when it appeared that he would kill Krycek for the murder of his father [Anasazi]. Mulder has been shot twice: critically, in the upper femur in Beyond the Sea, not so seriously in the left shoulder by Scully to keep him from killing Krycek [Anasazi]; Scully has been shot once, in the chest (though she was wearing her protective vest at the time), in Young at Heart. Mulder and Scully have been quarantined three times after potential contact with an infectious organism -- at the end of the episodes Ice, Darkness Falls, and Firewalker. Mulder has lost time in the Pilot (9 minutes), Deep Throat (undetermined), E.B.E. (undetermined), and Little Green Men (undetermined). Scully has lost time in the Pilot (9 minutes), E.B.E. (undetermined), and Ascension/One Breath (approximately 3 months). Scully's FBI ID number is 2317-616. Her home phone number is (202) 555-6431, [Ghost in the Machine.], and her cellular phone number is 555-3564 [Sleepless]. Her apartment number is #35. Her X File number (given to the file began after her abduction [Duane Barry]) is 73317. Scully and Mulder met for the first time on March 6, 1992 X.T. (X Files Time) [Pilot]. Mulder has a computer at home, and his password is TRUSTNO1. He was a fan of the television show "The Magician" as a child. [Little Green Men] Mulder lives in an apartment (#42) in Alexandria [Novel: Goblins]. His badge number is JTT047101111. The "saying" at the end of the opening credits, The Truth Is Out There, has changed four times: Trust No One -- in Erlemneyer Flask, episode 1X23. Deny Everything -- in Ascension, episode 2X06 EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E (The Truth Is Out There in Navajo) -- in Anasazi, episode 2X25. Apology is Policy -- in 731, episode 3X10 Ten Thirteen's production crew has had cameos (names and bodies) in various episodes. First Assistant Director Tom Braidwood appeared as _Lone Gunman_ photographer Frohike in "E.B.E.", "Blood," "One Breath," "Fearful Symmetry," "Anasazi," "Paperclip," "Nisei," and "Apocrypha," and his name was used as the person taking over Howard Graves's parking spot in "Shadows" and as Mulder's alias to get into the secured government compound in Washington State in "E.B.E." Ken Kirzinger, stunt coordinator, appeared as Richter in "Ice." Hair Stylist Malcolm Marsden's name was used for the British PM in "Fire." Vladimir Stefoff, First Assistant Director, had his name (as Val Stefoff) used as Scully's alias to get into the compound in "E.B.E." Executive Producer R.W. Goodwin appeared as a gardener in "Anasazi," and Chris Carter appeared in the same episode as an FBI agent (the third one) grilling Scully. Story editor Darin Morgan appeared as the fluke creature in "Blood." Story ideas: _The X Files_, like almost all network TV shows, does not accept unsolicited scripts or story ideas. If you have them, you will need to get yourself an agent to submit them to the show. Story ideas or scripts sent to the show unagented will be returned or tossed in the trash. Ideas, scripts, and stories can be posted for other fans' enjoyment to the newsgroup alt.tv.x-files.creative - o -