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 For example, "" (1999) is a prequel to "Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi" (1983) but is only a "predecessor" rather than a "prequel" of "" (2002) because of the release order. Likewise, 1984's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is a prequel to 1981's "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark," in that it is set in 1935, one year before the first film. Sometimes "prequel" describes followups where it is not always possible to apply a label defined solely in terms of intertextuality. In the case of "The Godfather Part II", the