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
Dune prequel series Dune" (2006) and "Sandworms of Dune" (2007), sequels to Frank Herbert's final novel "" (1985) which complete the chronological progression of his original series and wrap up storylines that began with his "Heretics of Dune" (1984). Prelude to Dune is a prequel trilogy of novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in Frank Herbert's "Dune" universe. The series takes place in the years leading up to the events in the original novel "Dune" (1965) and explores the origins of some of its characters. In 1997, Bantam Books made a $3 million deal with the authors for three