" Lucas at one point considered depicting Vader and Fett as brothers in the prequel films, but discounted it as too " hokey.

Darth Vader ( born Anakin Skywalker ) is the central character of the Star Wars saga, appearing as one of the main antagonists of the original trilogy and as the main protagonist of the prequel trilogy.

The later prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise describes the warp engine technology as a ' Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold ' ( Commander Tucker's tour, " Cold Front "), and describes the device as being powered by an anti-matter / matter reaction which powers the two separate nacelles ( one on each side of the ship ) to create a displacement field ( the aforementioned " bubble ") The episode also firmly establishes that many other civilizations had warp drive before humans ; First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore suggested that Cochrane's drive was in some way superior to forms that existed beforehand, and was gradually adopted by the galaxy at large.

Set in the same universe as the Eddings ' The Belgariad and The Malloreon, it is effectively one big flashback ( or a prequel ) to the other series, although the framework story is set after the events of The Malloreon.

He is also currently writing a prequel to The Saga, a series of four books all about Larten Crepsley ( one of the main characters ) starting with Birth of a Killer ( 2010 ) and finishing with Brothers to the Death ( 2012 ).

In the case of The Godfather Part II, the narrative combines elements of a prequel with those of a more generalized sequel by having two intercut narrative strands, one continuing from the first film ( the mafia family story under the leadership of Michael Corleone ), and one, completely separate, detailing events that precede it ( the story of his father Vito Corleone in his youth ).

In the 2008 episode " The Beginning Of The End " of the BBC television series Merlin, a prequel to and re-imagining of the Arthur legends, Mordred appears as a young Druid boy whom Merlin protects despite being warned that he would one day kill Arthur.

Some directors, most notably George Lucas ( Star Wars original trilogy and prequel trilogy movies ), Quentin Tarantino, and Peter Jackson ( all 3 Lord of the Rings movies ) include it in almost every one of their productions.

Notable examples are Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, which is recognized as one of the first film prequels and the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

The 2009 film Star Trek, is one such case ; by means of a time travel plot it is at once a prequel, sequel and reboot to the 1960's television series of exactly the same name.

Her name Jadis appears in one proclamation in this book, and Lewis's later prequel The Magician's Nephew tells of her origin and how she came to the Narnian world.

Several sequel series and one prequel have followed.

Doon himself was probably one of the last characters to be clearly defined, and the chanson de geste relating his exploits was drawn up partly with the view of supplying a suitable ancestor for the other heroes — in modern terms, a prequel.

An historical prequel about one of Charlie's Dutch ancestors.

Three further Crystal Chronicles games have been released ( chronologically, two sequels, one distant prequel, and two more ); one for the Wii was released, and one for the WiiWare download service is in development, making Crystal Chronicles a sub-series of the Final Fantasy series.

The film emerged as a cult classic, followed by two direct-to-video sequels, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, and one direct-to-video prequel: Tremors 4: The Legend Begins.

Industrial Light & Magic designer Doug Chiang identified the Jedi starfighter as one of the first designs that bridges the aesthetic between the prequel and original trilogies.

This disagreement is further explained in the prequel comics by the fact that Donatello does not trust Nightwatcher, because no one knows what side he is really on and because he uses fear to accomplish his ends.

He is one of the main characters in the Final Fantasy VII prequel game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, in which he and the protagonist Zack Fair go in the search of two missing SOLDIERs, Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley, This game also depicts the Nibelheim incident, where Sephiroth appears as a boss.

He was one of the contributing screenwriters for the film prequel to The Exorcist, released as Exorcist: The Beginning, for which he received a shared story credit.

In February 2011, Pullman revealed to BridgetoTheStars. net that he was now thinking of producing The Book of Dust in two volumes, one as a prequel to the His Dark Materials series and one to come after.

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

It is one of the most entertaining and irresponsible novels of the season.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator so there is no one for Poirot to mislead.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

" They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 1920s, ' 30s and ' 40s.

In 2002, the Science Fiction Book Club also published the two novels in one volume.

In the Brain and Brawn series of novels series by Anne McCaffrey and others, beginning with The Ship Who Sang, a " brainship " is a human body, usually one that could not develop normally, encased in the strongest materials available in that universe, and mentally connected to the controls of a spacecraft.

As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

Another important source appears to have been Apuleius's The Golden Ass, one of the earliest known novels, a picaresque from late classical antiquity.

* Tirant lo Blanc – one of the chivalric novels frequently referenced by Don Quixote

* Amadis de Gaula – one of the chivalric novels found in the library of Don Quixote

* Belianis – one of the chivalric novels found in the library of Don Quixote

In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula.

There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).

Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( 1842 ) by Richard Wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel.

The general American tendency was to simplify the plots borrowed from novels and plays so that they could be dealt with in one reel and with the minimum of titling and the maximum of straightforward narrative continuity, but there were exceptions to this.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".