The Sin-Eater
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| Title: | The Sin-Eater | |
| Author(s): | Jane Mortimer | |
| Date(s): | September 1, 1997 | |
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| Genre: | MSR | |
| Fandom: | The X-Files | |
| External Links: | The Sin-Eater (author's page via Wayback Machine) The Sin-Eater (IOHO) | |
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The Sin-Eater is an MSR story featuring a time-travel plot in which Scully disappears, only to return years later with no consciousness that time had passed. Mulder, in the interim, has made numerous and severe moral compromises in his efforts to find her and, when she returns, to protect her from exploitation. Dark, but also powerfully romantic in its expression of the depths to which Mulder would go for Scully.
Recs and Reviews
- "Last month, when I was going through the past recs for The X-Files at crack_van in preparation for my turn "driving the van," I was startled to realize that "The Sin Eater" was not on the list. As good as it is, and often as it has been recced elsewhere, I would have thought that everyone would have read it by now, but then a friend, who has been in the fandom since the fourth season, told me she had just read it recently, so this is apparently not the case. Not only is it a classic science fiction story, complete with time travel and alternative history, it is also a brilliant character study of Mulder, told from Scully's point of view, which illustrates just how much he would give up in order to save his partner's life. Though written in 1997, which certainly qualifies it for Fandom Classic status, there is a very contemporary feel to the writing."[1]
References
- ↑ wendelah1 in xf_book_club. Story 82: "The Sin Eater" by Jane Mortimer, 12 June 2009. (Accessed 11 February 2011)
