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
Dune prequel series Dune prequel series The "Dune" prequel series is a sequence of novel trilogies written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Set in the "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert, the novels take place in various time periods before and in between Herbert's original six novels, which began with 1965's "Dune". In 1997, Bantam Books made a $3 million deal with the authors for three "Dune" prequel novels, partially based upon notes left behind by Frank Herbert, that would come to be known as the "Prelude to Dune" trilogy. Starting with 1999's "", the duo have published 11 "Dune" prequel