
The X Files is a TV series novelization written by Les Martin and Ellen Steiber in 1997 and based on the TV series of the same name, created by Chris Carter in 1993. The TV series features Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Patrick, William B. Davis, Tom Braidwood, and others.
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Storyline
The X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). She is partnered with Mulder initially so that she can debunk Mulder’s nonconforming theories, often supplying logical, scientific explanations for the cases’ apparently unexplainable phenomena.
Movie vs Book

Year
1993
Minutes
45
Movie Rate
8.60
Source: IMDb

Year
1997
Pages
439
Book Rate
8.38
S: Goodreads
Book
The X Files
Author: Les Martin, Ellen Steiber
Country: USA
First published in: 1997
Length: 439 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: The X Files
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“I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.”
ANDREW STANTON (Filmmaker)
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