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
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is a science-fiction horror novel by Steve Alten, and was first published in July 1997. The novel, along with its sequels, follows the underwater adventures of a Navy deep-sea diver named Jonas Taylor. In 2018, a film adaptation titled "The Meg", was released. A revised and expanded version of the novel (also containing the prequel "Meg: Origins") was also released to coincide with the film's debut. In the novel's prologue, taking place during the Late Cretaceous Period, a "Tyrannosaurus rex" stumbles into the ocean while pursuing a herd