2 New X-FILES Novels Will Focus on Teenage Versions of Mulder and Scully

The final episode of The X-Files revival airs tonight, and it's going to be sad to see series go away again. Hopefully it's not forever, though! For those of us who will be left with a hankering for more X-Files stories, Imprint/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group has announced that they will be releasing two new young adult novels that will feature teenage versions of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

The two X-Files Origins novels will be called Agent of Chaos and Devil’s Advocate, and they take place in the spring of 1979, when Mulder was 17 years old and Scully was only 15. It was during that summer that both characters experienced life-changing events that set them on the path to becoming FBI agents and ultimately working on the X-Files.

Erin Stein, Publisher of Imprint, had this to say in a statement to EW:

“When I watched the pilot episode back in 1993, I became immediately obsessed with The X-Files. As a die-hard fan of the show, the opportunity to work with incredible authors on original stories about these characters is a dream come true for me. Why did Mulder become a believer? Why did Scully become a skeptic? We get to tell those stories.”

Agent of Chaos will focus on Mulder's story and will be written by Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures). Devil’s Advocate, is Scully’s story, and will be written by Jonathan Maberry (Marvel Universe vs. The Avengers). These books have the potential to be very enlightening for fans, and I hope they turn out well. It will be interesting to see them dig into the pasts of these characters and expand on what we already know about them.

Both The X-Files Origins novels will be released in January 2017.