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 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.