Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

" Tjaden appears as a well-liked school teacher in the sequel, The Road Back, but it is unclear whether he is the same person as in the prequel.

He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999-2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is established that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the son and heir of Dmitri Harkonnen and his wife Victoria.

He is featured in 1965's Dune, the original novel in the science fiction series, as well as the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

David Davalos ' Wittenberg is a " tragical-comical-historical " prequel to Hamlet that depicts the Danish prince as a student at Wittenberg University ( now known as the University of Halle-Wittenberg ), where he is torn between the conflicting teachings of his mentors John Faustus and Martin Luther.

The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.

Like Enterprise, the new film ( which did contain an indirect reference to the series: Scotty believes he has been " exiled " to the remote Starfleet outpost, where Kirk and the older Spock encounter him, as punishment for losing Admiral Archer's beagle-whom Kirk is quite familiar with-in a transporter mishap ) also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.

In the official comic book prequel to the movie Star Trek, Worf is a General in the Klingon Empire who is dispatched to deal with Romulan Captain Nero and his significantly altered mining vessel, the Narada.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Slayers Special is a spin-off prequel series of 30 novels published from 1991 to 2008.

Prophet's Power, numbered as the second book in the series, is actually a prequel to the first, Hard Crash ; thus it is harder for readers to understand what happened in the story.

There is also a prequel novel and a companion book available.

Paul's birth is featured in the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson prequel novel Dune: House Corrino ( 2001 ).

He is portrayed in the 1993 film Gettysburg ( based on the The Killer Angels ) by Tom Berenger, and in the prequel, Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), by Bruce Boxleitner.

Coincidentally, Lawson is the maternal uncle of Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy.

As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

The Cyclic Poets, as the translator of Homerica, Hugh G. Evelyn-White noted " were careful not to trespass upon ground already occupied by Homer ," one of the reasons for dating the final, literary form of Cypria as post-Homeric, in effect a " prequel ".

The Kurumi series as a whole consists of the first show Steel Angel Kurumi, four OVA episodes entitled Steel Angel Kurumi Encore, and a second show by the name of Steel Angel Kurumi 2, plus a sort-of dramatic prequel " Steel Angel Kurumi 0 ".

According to McNelly, he and Frank Herbert had planned to expand this version into a prequel novel to Dune, but Herbert's death two years later prevented the work from being completed.

Therefore, a prequel is a work that forms part of a back-story to the preceding work.

The creators of both Batman Begins and Rise of the Planet of the Apes also stated their intent to dispense with the continuity of the previous films so they would exist as separate pieces of work, with Christopher Nolan — director of Batman Begins — explicitly stating he does not consider it a prequel.

Some reviewers require that a prequel must lead up to the beginning of its original work, which is inconsistent with works that dispense with the narrative of previous work and are not significantly within the same continuity.

A sequel that portrays events which precede those of the original work is called a " prequel.

It is featured in the weekly magazine Modern Mahjong, and is a prequel to the author's previous work Ten, in which Akagi's titular character also appears.

As opposed to a prequel, sequel, or interquel, a side story takes place within the same time frame as an existing work.

The use of gaiden is commonly used in popular Japanese fiction to refer to a spin-off ( canonical or otherwise ) of a previously published work that is neither officially considered a sequel nor a prequel.

Triggerfish Twist may be considered more of a " parallel work " than a sequel or prequel.

Dark Horse Presents returned as an eighty-page anthology comic on April 20, 2011 with all-new stories including a Concrete story by Paul Chadwick, a Mr. Monster story by Michael T. Gilbert, a Crimson Empire story from the Star Wars universe, a new strip called Marked Man by Howard Chaykin, a strip called Blood by Neal Adams ( his first work for Dark Horse ), and a sneak peek of Frank Miller ’ s prequel to 300, Xerxes.

There is also a short story " Aficionado " ( originally titled " Life in the Extreme "), published in 1998, which serves as a prequel to the series as a whole ( it also serves as a part of Existence, an unrelated work by Brin ), and a novella Temptation published in 1999 in Far Horizons, which follows on from Heaven's Reach.

Herbert rendered the work technically non-canon in its own foreword, and Herbert's estate later reasserted this status after Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson had begun publishing prequel novels which directly contradict The Dune Encyclopedia.

Gods and Generals is a novel which serves as a prequel to Michael Shaara's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning work about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels.

Richard " Rick " McCallum ( born August 23, 1952 ) is a German-born American film producer mostly known for his work on the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition and prequel trilogy.

George Lucas was so impressed with the work of DK on the original trilogy that he signed a deal for DK to produce similar books for the prequel trilogy.

The prequel, of necessity, resembles The Lord of the Rings ; the decision of Doubleday to issue the work as a trilogy increased that resemblance ; and some critics have seen McKiernan as simply imitating Tolkien's epic work.

With Sony Wonder, it has produced Mega Babies ( also aired on Fox Family ), as well as a direct-to-video feature, Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage ( a prequel to both the L. Frank Baum work, and the 1939 movie ).

Based on her work for Lucasfilm and Paramount, in writing the " backstory " for, respectively, Han Solo and Sarek from Star Trek, she was approached to create a " backstory " and prequel to the popular Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Against this backdrop, the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) chronicles the return from obscurity of House Atreides, whose role in the Butlerian Jihad is all but forgotten.

Shinn is defined as a civilian whose character could already go through a large development in contrast to Kira who was forced to become a soldier in the prequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

Although published ten years after Shardik, Maia is a loose prequel whose events take place about a dozen years earlier.

" Rise of the Cybermen " and its online Tardisode prequel featured Mickey's doppelgänger, Ricky Smith, whose tough, decisive, and in control demeanour Mickey would come to adopt.