The Science of the X-Files

by Jeanne Cavelos

Book Overview

Jeanne Cavelos feels that "The X-Files is actually the television drama most concerned with science today, incorporating recent discoveries and exploring the limits and values of science." Cavelos's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425167119
• ISBN13: 9780425167113
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Iguanas and slam dancing and cancer - - Oh My!

I had this be in my "to be read pile" for months. I would pick it up, peak at it and instead pick something I thought was more ***important*** to read. Let's face it work, friends and other distractions get in the way of reading - - hence I am forever behind. Big mistake on my part. For one thing, the chapters in the book are strong enough to be read on their own. Secondly. this book is immensely enjoyable and intelligent. I had some reservations that the book may be dry and dense - - but I stand corrected. Reading this book is like listening in to wonderful conversation. Jeanne Cavelos is witty, imaginative and brings the science down to earth. Not only would I recommend this to fans of the X-Files, but to anyone who grooves on science or has a sense of humor. Read the book and discover the relationship between owls, people and grapefruit!

"Better Than The Movie" (and the show).

In this illuminating book,Jeanne Cavelos carries you far, far beyond the distorted and spacey feelings that some get from actually sitting too-still through the soma-like flow of the "X-Files". The book leaps and vibrates beyond the limits of the screen with a more immediate and gritty intellectual presence. Sometimes I watch the X-files...to relax. This book is much more exciting than I expected because she helps you to believe that many of these bizarre things...can actually happen. I'ts a lot scarier, and vastly more interesting when you are shown that very much of what you thought was science fantasy(or science fiction)--is, more accurately embodied in the single root word...SCIENCE.

You're not a fan if you don't have this book.

Talk about crack smoking...the guy that gave this book one star must have been smoking it himself. (Talk about a biased review). Anyway, this book was great. I would suggest that any fan of the show pick this one up.

Actually made me *enjoy* reading about spacecraft propulsion

I couldn't have enjoyed this book more....well, maybe if it had been longer!One of the most interesting and readable science works to come along in ages, this book is also one of the few books connected with "The X-Files" to actually get *every* reference to The Show correct....something that not even the massive "X-Files X-cyclopedia" managed to do (I wrote so many corrections in the margins of that book that I might as well have re-written it).I came away from the reading experience of "Science" with an enhanced respect for CC & Co. They're doing a lot better than a lot of philes give them credit for. I also felt that I got insight into the mythology, which, as all philes know, is something to treasure.I recommend this book not only to phellow philes, but also to anyone who wants to read about the latest scientific developments in genetics, etc. Really an outstanding book. (The only negative review I have ever seen looks like it came from someone who got a bad grade in class.....)

Explains the entire Mythology in understandable science!

I couldn't believe this book! it explains the minutae of every aspect of the Mythology; the differening types of aliens, the UFOs, the hybrids, Emily, the shapeshifters, the abductions, THE BLACK OIL, plus lotz of non-mythology stuff which I frankly did not read.