Trainspotting (novel) grown eloquent". The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, "Trainspotting" (1996), directed by Danny Boyle. Welsh wrote a sequel, "Porno", in 2002. "Skagboys", a novel that serves as a prequel, was published in April 2012. The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. The novel's origins in short fiction are still visible though no segment or chapter is wholly independent of the others. The majority of the stories are narrated by the novel's central protagonist,
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.