Skagboys Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel "Trainspotting", and its 2002 sequel "Porno". It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction. When Welsh described the novel he said: "I think I’m going to call it Skag Boys: “skag” is my favourite word for heroin. It's set before they’re into heroin and investigates how the main characters become junkies, the family dynamics, the anxieties of young men. A lot of the fringe characters become more prominent". "I had a
Prequel Often, they explain the background which led to the events in the original, but sometimes the connections are not as explicit. Sometimes, prequels play on the audience's knowledge of what will happen next, using deliberate references to create dramatic irony. Though the word "prequel" is of recent origin, works fitting this concept existed long before. The "Cypria", presupposing hearers' acquaintance with the events of the Homeric epic, confined itself to what preceded the "Iliad", and thus formed a kind of introduction. According to the "Oxford English Dictionary" the word "prequel" first appeared in print in 1958 in an article by