Skagboys addict is the ultimate individualist.." "" remarks, "It was known that there was more material of "Trainspotting" than went into the final draft, but that’s true of most novels. So you anticipate a lashed-together series of outtakes and bloopers. What you get is something quite different. The prequel has all the marvellous set pieces, the schemes, stories, scams and dreams and the same mad profusion of narrators that characterises everything Welsh has written. But it’s long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality". Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer
Prequel Anthony Boucher in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", used to describe James Blish's 1956 story "They Shall Have Stars," which expanded on the story introduced in his earlier 1955 work, "Earthman Come Home". The term came into general usage in the 1970s and 1980s. "" (1979) may have introduced the term "prequel" into the mainstream. The term has since been popularized by the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy (1999-2005). Rather than being a concept distinct from that of a "sequel", a "prequel" still adheres to the general principle of serialization, defined only by its internal chronology and publication order.