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Haven't been reading books as much lately and currently juggling between several titles, but I did manage to finish The X-Files: Antibodies by Kevin J. Anderson, a vintage tie-in novel I bought several years back when it was on 99 cent sale. TBH, I couldn't tell if I'd read it before or not, since there were some parts I thought I recognized, but others that seemed completely new, and I've no idea whether that's just the effect of it being an X-Files tie-in novel, which are kind of same-y as to the plots, or a Kevin J. Anderson tie-in novel, which are kind of same-y as to the storytelling.
Aside from that, it was a perfectly cromulent read done with Anderson's usual serviceable craftmanship for media franchise tie-in novels. Although I found myself much more sympathetic to the mysterious shadowy conspiracy viewpoint this time around. Not that I think that Cancerman and his ilk would actually be doing anything good with the techno-Macguffin, but IMHO any plucky rogue researcher who displays that much of a willful disregard for lab safety protocols and the potential consequences of having that kind of stuff get loose in the wider world, no matter how good a cause they think they're working towards, is pretty much asking to have a termination squad called down on themselves, their project, and anyone else they might have happened to unknowingly infected with it, pour encourager les autres.
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