Telepaths of Atlantis

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 Previously, I mentioned the claim that the earliest use of the term "teleportation" was in 1931. What about "telepathy"? Apparently the term "telepathy" was invented by Frederic Myers some time around 1882.

 

A Seventh Child (1894) by Henrietta Stannard is about a ten year old girl, Nancy, who can "read minds". Making use of her telepathic ability, Nancy saves her older sister from marrying the secretive Mr. Devereux, a man with a dark past. Devereux label's Nancy's mind reading ability as "second sight". With time and after several more seemingly random telepathic visions, Nancy takes to thinking of herself as a clairvoyant. However, using her "special sense" is very tiring for Nancy and since it only seems to provide visions of emotionally disturbing events, she avoids using her telepathic ability and hopes that it will disappear as she grows up.

The League of Yrinna

The Fictional Science of Telepathy

For the Exode Saga, I have fun imagining that human telepathy first became possible in the far future of the Asimov Reality, after a lengthy effort to modify human gene combinations and take advantage of the presence of the femtobot endosymbiont that had been provided by the Phari. 

 

Once the required human gene combinations had been found, they could be sent into the past and inserted into the human population of Earth some 10-20,000 years in our past. So, why shouldn't an occasional human such as Nancy (as depicted in A Seventh Child) have some telepathic abilities? For my story "Hierion Writers Club" I pretend that Mary is one such person with telepathic abilities.

Grendels

And what if there were other creatures on Earth with telepathic powers? In the Exode Saga, I imagine that humans evolved on Earth with the help and guidance of Grendels, Interventionists who often deployed artificial lifeforms with humanoid appearance on Earth. The Grendels hid themselves away in burrows under springs, rivers and beaches, emerging only when needed to help adjust the course of human history.

Last Grendel on Earth

The Grendels were derived genetically as a variant of the Prelands. When the Trysta-Grean Pact went into effect, only humans were allowed on Earth. "The Dead Widower Society" is an account of how the last Preland was removed from Earth.

interior art by Virgil Finlay

In the 1927 story "Atlantis' Exile" by Cyril Hume, we are told that a population of aquatic humanoids lives in a city at the bottom of the sea. The resident's of Atlantis use advanced technology to survive including a magical chemical which if released in small amount into the waters of their city allows human slaves to survive there without breathing.

Occasionally, the residents of Atlantis pull some humans down to their city and employ them as workers doing menial tasks such as clearing away seaweed. "Atlantis' Exile" is told from the perspective of an old man who worked for many years in Atlantis.

Having been re-published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, "Atlantis' Exile" is not much of a science fiction story, but it does depict the aquatic humanoids of Atlantis as being telepathic.

vision of a dead man (see)

In A Seventh Child, Nancy is able to make use of her telepathic abilities to help save her brother from being murdered, only to have him then die from cholera. There is an even bigger "twist of fate" at the core of A Seventh Child, which I will not spoil here. There are many stories about people with limited telepathic abilities and plots that explore the question: would they be better off without their special telepathic powers? One such story is found in the film Next, which mixes telepathic powers with a form of time travel that makes possible the viewing of future events.

Converting telepathy into fictional science. In A Seventh Child, Nancy is able to see a bottle of poison in another woman's pocket. Nobody would describe A Seventh Child as being science fiction, but the 1927 story The Man with Six Senses by Muriel Jaeger features the same kind of telepathic vision and some effort was made to depict a fictional science basis for the telepathy. 

 

"Hierion Writers Club"

Get Rich Quick. If you had the ability to see objects in people's pockets, would you try to exploit that ability to become rich, maybe by "viewing" the location of hidden oil deposits? Written in much the same "spirit" as The Man with Six Senses was Jack Vance's story featuring remote viewing, "Parapsyche", which also involves finding oil by means of psychic powers. 

 

For my story "Hierion Writers Club" I pretend that Mary has limited telepathic abilities that would do her little good on Earth. For example, she has a telepathic connection to her pet cat. However, Mary is taken into the Hierion Domain where her telepathic powers can be amplified by advanced technology and used to help shape the course of human history.

Related Reading: an even older story about "second sight"

Next: part 2 of "Grean Fiction"

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X-24

The suggestible Mulder's vision of 2012

Back at the end of the original run of The X-Files, we were told that the alien invasion of Earth would happen in 2012. Then, in 2015 when the X-Files miniseries was being crafted, terror attacks in Paris (Charlie Hebdo) and Texas were in the news. It is no surprise that Chris Carter decided to put Arabic-speaking terrorists into his X-Files miniseries (episode 5: 'Babylon').

Where are we? Babylon.

I suppose it was painful for Carter to watch when 24 became the new darling of Fox TV. I never watched 24, but Carter's 'Babylon' is just how I'd expect Chris Carter to make a paranormal episode of 24. Rather than torture a captured bomber for information about the next terror attack, "spooky" Mulder solves the case by achieving telepathic contact with a brain-dead terrorist. Or something. At the end of the episode, nobody understands what just happened. But this is the X-Files, understanding is not in the cards.

The suggestible terrorist

Sadly for Chris Carter, the world did not end in 2000 or in 2012. Sadly, for the rest of us, Carter is still giving us TV shows about the "end times". In 'Babylon', Mulder starts out investigating "ear witnesses" to the heavenly trumpets of the apocalypse. At the end of the episode, Mulder himself seems to hear the heavenly music. Of course, this is at the end of a story in which swallowing two niacin capsules causes Mulder to have a dream-like vision in which the brain-dead terrorist speaks to Mulder in Arabic.

At the Ziggurat: black-vested greeters welcome terrorists

Chris Carter's theme here is the power of words and the "suggestibility" of people, whether it be the case of Mulder believing that he has ingested a hallucinogen or a terrorist believing that "infidels must die". Carter's plot quickly diverges from reality when two Arabic-speaking terrorists simply walk in the front door of the the Ziggurat Gallery in Texas and set off a bomb, targeting an offensive "art" display.

We all know the real story from Garland, Texas: there was heavy security and everyone was expecting trouble. Here, in Carter's fantasy, we need a big bang before the opening credits can role, so the art Gallery has no security, just convenient parking. Worse, the gratuitous burning extras in the teaser scene did not match the blasted but un-burned terrorist who spends most of the episode in the hospital.

An X-Files meet cute: Einstein's twin paradox. Scully: "Nobody here but the FBI's most unwanted".

Episodes A and B

Scully: "She calls him Miller."

Mulder: "It's not important what I believe, what's important is what they believe."

Episode A. Scully latches onto Special Agent Miller's business card and follows him to Texas. She wants to use EEG to look for brain wave activity in the brain-dead terrorist, an idea that is so crazy she only want's to run it past Miller, the agent of the very open mind.

Einstein: pity for Scully

Meanwhile, in Episode B, Mulder is mysteriously able to entice the Skeptical Agent Einstein to "catch the crazy train" and abandon her flight to Texas.

psilocybin

In full-on 24 fashion, Einstein ensures us that the "clock is ticking" and Chris Carter shows us a terrorist bomb-builder preparing more bombs.

Doing a complete 180, Einstein returns to Mulder's basement office for some Foxy smooth talking and a medical consultation. Fox wants Dr. Einstein to give him a dose of psilocybin so that he can telepathically contact the brain-dead terrorist. This is the X-Files, so nothing needs to make sense... just go with it.

The suggestible Mulder in
Mulder's magic mush room.

Mother Love
Plan B. Agent Einstein refuses to work with Mulder until she teleports to Texas and discovers that Scully is already working with Agent Miller on Plan A. Channeling her inner Scully, Agent Einstein does another 180. Now she seems willing to humor Mulder while mercilessly taunting him for his batshit-crazy ideas. After Mulder teleports to Texas, Einstein hands him two capsules and warns him not to take both at one time because the dose of this Schedule 1 drug might be too high.

Mulder: "Sit down and shut up." Einstein's first lesson in Mulder's basement school of the paranormal.

Not Psilocybin

Telepathic contact with the dead

50 shades of bad

Later, we learn that Einstein only gave Mulder niacin capsules and we see Mulder with what looks like a niacin rash (but is the rash where the '50 shades of bad' Einstein struck Mulder in his hallucination?). Still, the suggestible Mulder has a hallucinatory episode in which the brain-dead terrorist speaks to him and he sees the mother of the terrorist.

mother love

Importantly, when the two terrorists went into the Ziggurat art gallery, the brain-dead terrorist saw the victims and he could not detonate his suicide vest.

let's rumble

Later, while in a vegetative state in his hospital bed, he achieves telepathic contact with his mother and Mulder. The brain-dead terrorist tries to provide the location of the remaining terrorists who are preparing for their next attack.

The brain-dead terrorist is an Arabic detector.

Brain Dead, er, or Not
Episode A. Now hospitalized, the brain-dead terrorist has brain activity whenever someone speaks Arabic. After hearing his mother's voice, the terrorist finally dies. And, miraculously, Mulder is then able to "hear" what the terrorist has been trying to communicate: "Babylon motel".

The Babylon motel

The FBI raids the Babylon motel and captures the terrorists before they can detonate additional bombs.

The power of words. Afraid of three words.

After the terrorism storm blows out to sea, Agent Einstein literally lets her hair down.

Mixing old X and new Y
I want to believe
that the finale won't stink

The last scene of 'Babylon', set in Texas, with the two younger agents waiting for their flight back to Washington, could have been a 2.5 minute set-up for X-Files: The Next Generation. We get to see Miller and Einstein locked in a partnership where they alternately share loving gazes and looks of dismay at the conceptual gulfs that separate them.

My Struggle, too

When are 2 doctors
better than 1?

Episode 6
I've been following The X-Files "season 10" in an attempt to learn if Chris Carter will provide a science fiction backstory for the paranormal story lines in the X-Files. Heading into the final episode, we are being teased with the idea that "alien DNA" has been inserted into everyone. Will we get to see the results of Scully's genome project for telepaths? Will Drs. Einstein and Scully science the shit out of alien DNA?

Next: science fiction in Deep Time.

Breaking Bad

"Where No Man Has Gone Before"

The title of this blog post might have been "breaking bad habits" or even "breaking barriers". I've never seen the TV show. The topic here is, as usual, science fiction and my starting point is writer Samuel A. Peeples.

Wagon Train
I arrived as a child of the Space Age, coming into existence at the same time as NASA. The early 1960s were a strange time to become conscious. My brother, just 2 years old than I, was a fan of Westerns. In contrast, I became a fan of science fiction.

In the black and white world.
Going where no European Settler
has gone before.

Some of my earliest memories: watching people who were watching Westerns on television, shows such as Wagon Train. Back then, the world was only black and white. I was like a dog watching people who were watching television and thinking: "Please take me outside for a walk."

Breaking the color barrier.

When my eyes could finally focus on the images that danced upon our small black and white television screen, I tried to understand my strange world, a place where primates would sit for an hour watching horse-drawn wagons spend 8 years traveling from Missouri to California.

Wagon Train to the stars
source

Of course, primates were making rapid progress. Soon, the world was in color and Project Apollo took us from Yuri Gagarin in low Earth orbit to the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon in just 8 years. Peeples, a writer of Western-themed novels, ended up writing some television scripts right at the start of the Space Age. He crossed paths with Gene Roddenberry and when Roddenberry started talking about the idea of creating a television program set in outer space, Peeples suggested that the new show be a "Wagon Train to the stars".

From the stars to Wagon Train.

In a previous blog post, I expressed my fascination with writers who had the audacity to "cross over" from Westerns to science fiction. In the case of Peeples, while his main interest was in the Western genre, he was apparently a fan of science fiction. Wagons spaceships, ho!

Galactic Barrier
When Star Trek was being born, Peeples wrote a script for what became the episode called "Where No Man Has Gone Before". This story and its paranormal theme provides a fascinating example of the boundary between science fiction and fantasy.

Sally Kellerman

We can take the Star Trek story that Peeples wrote as a challenge: can we imagine future science that would "explain" the events depicted on screen in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"? A fundamental bit of future science that Peeples inserted into the Star Trek fictional universe is the idea that humans have a latent capacity for paranormal abilities. Contact with the "energy barrier" at the edge of the galaxy causes those latent abilities to activate, so Sally Kellerman was soon able to wield an amazing telekinetic superpower.

Gary Lockwood

Good vs Evil
And, lucky for us, Sally happened to be on board the Enterprise because she was able to resist the temptation to become a goddess and she helped Kirk and Spock kill Gary Lockwood. Apparently Lockwood was selected to play the role of lieutenant commander Gary Mitchell because he naturally struck other people as being an arrogant and egotistical prick. In the episode, Lockwood did a great job of transforming into an evil god-like creature who would not hesitate to lord his paranormal superpowers over lesser beings. In 1965, Peeples would not have been working in Hollywood unless he was willing to write 50 minute morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Village of the Damned (1960 movie)

The Peeples Monster
In Hollywood, one formula for creating a "science fiction" story involves first inventing a monster. Freaky monsters with paranormal abilities are fairly common in Hollywood, but where do all these raging monsters come from? In Hollywood, a popular method to create a monster is by "mutation". Suddenly, an ordinary guy or critter transforms into the star of a horror story! Peeples transformed Gary Lockwood into a monster by crashing the Enterprise into an "energy barrier" at the edge of the galaxy.

Galactic "energy barrier"

The question becomes, why does crashing your starship into the "negative energy" barrier at the edge of the galaxy trigger the latent paranormal abilities of humans to activate? What part of Gary Mitchell is the source of his paranormal abilities? His eyes? His brain? What is his source of power? The melanin of his graying hair? Well, in 1965, in Hollywood, we are not supposed to ask such questions.

The nicotine laser!

I blame John Campbell for giving a paranormal tinge to science fiction. Through his editorial biases, Campbell gave authors motivation to include paranormal plot elements in science fiction stories even if there was no thought given to the future science that would account for magic tricks like telekinesis.

more on Hubbard

When it came to his favorite types of paranormal phenomena, Campbell favored non-critical thinking over skepticism. Apparently he was a sucker for people like Joseph Banks Rhine and Lafayette Ronald Hubbard who found ways to deceive themselves and others about paranormal phenomena. After helping create the science fiction genre, Campbell became an embarrassment to writers such as Isaac Asimov.

A Sedronite family tree.

2015
However, here in 2015, I've been exploring the future science of telepathy and precognition. Specifically, my current writing challenge is this: how should the Phari activate the latent "paranormal" abilities of Glinnes Hulden and Duissane Drosset? Ya, I put "paranormal" in quotes because in the Exode Trilogy, all of the seeming magic can be accounted for by advanced technology at work. My fan fiction story, The League of Yrinna, fits nicely into the Exode Fictional Universe.

Gift Exchange
Both humans from Earth and the Pheni of planet Yrinna are Sedronites. As such, they contain within them sophisticated artificial lifeforms.

Sedronites

Those artificial lifeforms are composed of zeptites and the bumbling humans have no means of detecting such tiny sedronic devices. All of the zeptites inside each person function as a living endosymbiont that can influence the behavior of the host organism. Reading this over my shoulder, Gohrlay continues to insist that my distinction between a human organism and its zeptite endosymbiont is an artificial distinction. Humans evolved in the presence of zeptites and all of our biology and behavior is constrained by the presence of zeptites inside our bodies.

Special thanks to Miranda Hedman (www.mirish.deviantart.com) for the DeviantArt stock photograph "Black Cat 9 - stock" that I used to create the blue "sedronite" who is in the image to the left.

If we think of our zeptite endosymbionts as being a "gift" from the pek then we can ask: what would happen if we could exchange our usual endosymbiont for a different "style" of endosymbiont? In particular, let's say, the kind of endosymbiont that is inside a Pheni on the planet Yrinna.

in the Ekcolir Reality
(click image to enlarge)

For The League of Yrinna, I imagine that this type of "endosymbiont swap" was performed long ago and the results were dramatically bad. Then the Phari began trying to adapt humans to become better hosts. Glinnes Hulden and Duissane Drosset are not perfect hosts for the Phari, but at least they don't die or go insane when a Phari takes up residence inside them. In particular, with a Phari endosymbiont, Duissane can use the Bimanoid Interface and (with some help) access information in the Sedronic Domain.

Psychomorphosis
A key issue that I have not yet resolved is if such a "gift exchange" of one endosymbiont for another is permanent. I'm toying with the idea that Glinnes and Duissane might have to travel through time in order to find a time/place where they can live happily ever after.

I like the idea that they might do historical research at the Connatic's Library on Numenes and discover some of Glinnes' ancestors. Only later will they realize that they must travel back through time and become their own ancestors, thus providing Trullion with critical genes that were needed for the Phari breeding project on Trullion.

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The Y-Files

I recently blogged about my fantasies for how Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga could be presented as a television series. Here, I want to give similar consideration to the idea of a new television series that would be an X-Files reboot.

Previously I compared The X-Files (1993 - 2002) to an old Australian television show, Delta (1969-1970).

In the Ekcolir Reality,  The Δ-Files was a popular investigative science fiction television series, running for years in the United States.

Here, in this blog post, I refer to my imagined future X-Files reboot as The Y-Files.

Think Small, Very Small

Time Travel Television

Mulder: "It's the virus-- the black oil." 

I'm comfortable thinking of viruses as a kind of nanotechnology, but the "black oil" from The X-Files would need an upgrade for The Y-Files. Advanced alien nanotechnology gives the aliens seemingly god-like powers compared to we humans. In general, these technologically-advanced aliens care as little about primates on Earth (including humans) as we do about the ants living in some random rotten tree trunk.

"...the black oil.....the substance in which the alien life force was held.....the very medium of the life force itself....."

Technologically-advanced aliens.

mmmm...chocolate

The aliens have existed as an artificial lifeform for billions of years. We humans can just barely understand how the aliens exist within a kind of distributed nanotechnology domain. The nanite-based fluid substance of the aliens traveled through space and reached Earth long ago. The aliens were perfectly happy to live deep within the Earth. With time, one "faction" of the aliens mutated and specialized in exploring symbiotic relationships with the evolving biological lifeforms of Earth. Most of the alien "life force" was content to live within the rocks of Earth and held the ethical view that Earth's biosphere should be free to evolve in its own random directions.

No FTL Travel

by Dave Granlund (source)

The "alien invasion" theme of The X-Files mytharc was intriguing because of its slowness. According to regulations imposed by the Extraterrestrials Union,  a Hollywood alien invasion must be repulsed within a 90 minute time limit (HURRAY!).

"the interplanetary explorers of alien civilizations will likely be mechanical in nature"

For The Y-Files, it should be made clear that there is no quick and easy way to travel between the stars. Long ago, a nanite-based artificial lifeform arrived on Earth after a long slow journey from a distant star. For the most part, those "alien invaders" ignored the biological scum of planet Earth, but then one day a misguided alien started tinkering with primate evolution and the result was the human species. The Dave Granlund cartoon shown here depicts the fundamental paranoia of The Y-Files: are "we" in control of our destiny? And just who are "we" anyhow?

No FBI, Yes ISIO

Biogenesis (source) Alien "message in a bottle"; Ivory Coast

I'd like to see The Y-Files become a global phenomenon. Rather than revive the FBI as the investigative organization behind The Y-Files, there should be an international organization that tries to make sense of the aliens who have long been visitors to Earth.

Jack Vance invented the Interworld Police Coordinating Company (IPCC). The Y-Files  follows the activities of a team of investigators from an international organization called the International Scientific Investigation Organization (ISIO). ISIO can be in a constant state of doubt about alien visitors to Earth, with some members doubtful about the existence of aliens and other ISIO members devoted to the challenge of revealing "the truth" about the secret history of alien visitors on this world.

William van de Kamp and Noémi Mahrée

The Y-Files begins with the son of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully: William. William is about to graduate with a B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Wyoming. He is contacted by the mysterious Noémi, who is from the Ivory Coast.

Noémi and William are perfect hosts for alien nanites, but at the start of The Y-Files their bodies are devoid of nanites. Together, they must discover their hidden past and make contact with the aliens who have long been visiting Earth.

Transition: from X-Files to Y-Files

Someone like Zendaya Coleman could play the part of Noémi. In the first few episodes of The Y-Files there would be major roles for Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny as they explain William's past and set Noémi and William on their path to making contact with the Investors.

BackstorY

in the Epsilon Eridani star system

An alien artificial lifeform long ago reached Earth and a faction of the aliens (called Investors) secretly guided primate evolution towards the production of a biological lifeform that would be similar to the original form of the aliens. About 1,000,000 years ago, the meddling of the Investors was discovered and a struggle began among different alien factions over the future of Earth.

Terms of a truce were declared among the competing alien factions and Earth was ruled off-limits for the aliens until Earthlings could decide their own fate. Although some alien nanites were left on Earth, their only function was to observe and monitor the planet. Some of the aliens withdrew to Epsilon Eridani while other continued their travels through the galaxy. On one planet in the Epsilon Eridani system, an alien faction (later to be known as the Colonists) began experimenting with the methods needed to return to existing as a biological lifeform.

Alien Investor and Colonist factions
experiment with various humanoid forms

Paranormalcy. About 20,000 years ago, some of the Investors secretly returned to Earth and began working to support development of a technological society on Earth. Due to the meddling and connivance of the Investors, modern human brains can sometimes take control of alien nanites, giving some Earthlings "paranormal" abilities.

In 1945, another alien faction (Colonists) interpreted the development of atomic weapons on Earth as marking the end of the truce. Their advance party (a small group of nanorobotic symbionts encased in manufactured biological shells) quietly contacted select groups of humans inside the government of Earth's nuclear powers (leading, in the West, to the Syndicate) and these aliens informed the Earthlings that they would not allow Earth to be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. The Colonists began development of a type of modified human that would be a better match to the original biological form of the aliens. The ethical precepts of the aliens prevented the Colonists from directly taking control of humans, so the Colonists (as the investors had also done) worked indirectly through humans. The main Colonist starship was scheduled to arrive from Epsilon Eridani and reach Earth in 2012. Occasionally the aliens would take on human form and live among the humans of Earth, although this was a serious violation of the ethical rules of the aliens.

Noémi Mahrée

By 2003, the Investors had defeated the advance party of the Colonists (as told in The X-Files). In 2012 the arriving Colonist starship diverted to the Moon, using it as their base of operations. They set about trying to infiltrate Earth and discover what happened to their advance party (who had been destroyed by the Investors). By investigating the activities of this "second wave" of Colonists, Noémi and William eventually learn about their past, join ISIO and receive nanites from the Investors. Equipped with alien nanites, Noémi and William have seemingly "paranormal" abilities, but actually their "special powers" depend on their ability to control alien nanites. The Investors work with Noémi and William and help Earth resist the Colonists. However, it never becomes clear if we humans are better off working for or against the Colonists...what if the Investors have already "conquered Earth" and are slowly leading us towards destruction?

The X-Files gave us insight into how elements of the United States government interacted with the aliens during the 20th century. There is a similar story behind Noémi and the government of France. ISIO grew out of a joint effort by the British and the French to study "alien artifacts" and technology (The Y-Files can explore the backstory of a European equivalent to the "shadowy" mysteries of government operations such as Area 51 that were featured in The X-Files). Noémi studied comparative religion at the University of Helsinki. The Y-Files can explore the impact of aliens on various religious belief systems around the world.

Science Fiction on Television

Darin Morgan

“The X-Files” lasted a few years too long, especially once it turned into a “We have no idea where the plot is going but if we keep asking questions and answering questions with more questions, no one will notice” storyline. (source)

Ya. One of the worst things about science fiction series on television is that there are "writers" who get paid to create science fiction stories, but they have no real interest in science fiction. Then they get on a treadmill and they have to keep producing new stories....even when they run out of ideas. The X-Files was never more than about 20% concerned with science fiction. As a science fiction fan, I'd like to see The Y-Files be a true science fiction television series. In particular, I'd prefer Sci Fi in a dominant position over the horror elements that, unfortunately, seem mandatory in Hollywood. The producers of the show should hire a science fiction author to define the back-story and characters then spend a year soliciting scripts from large group of established science fiction authors and wannabe Sci Fi writers.

Fun with Sci Fi

I'd put a premium on playfulness -science fiction is all about exploration and playing with new ideas. Hey, its T.V., it just has to be entertaining, so I would not hold The Y-Files to very high standards of scientific plausibility.

"By the time there's another invasion of artificially-intelligent, dung-eating robotic probes from outer space, maybe their uber-children will have devised a way to save our planet."

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Update: March 24th, 2015 Fox to make 6 new X-Files episodes starting Summer of 2015.

Related Reading: a look back at The X-Files: I Want To Believe

UPDATE DECEMBER 29th 2015: X-Files 2016 miniseries 

2018 update: Season 11 - William