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Jul 5, 202119 min read

Prequel Problems: Star Trek Enterprise and the Temporal Cold War

By Thomas Anderson In 2001, a new Star Trek series was launched – though initially without the ‘Star Trek’ branding for the first time,...

Jun 21, 202119 min read

Prequel Problems: Terry Pratchett’s “Night Watch”

By Tom Anderson Before I begin, I should preface this article by saying that Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series is probably my single...

Jun 7, 202111 min read

Prequel Problems: Young Montalbano

By Tom Anderson In a previous article in this series, I discussed the Inspector Morse franchise; how it developed from a series of novels...

May 24, 202114 min read

Prequel Problems: Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern

By Thomas Anderson In my earlier Prequel Problems article about Colin Dann’s Animals of Farthing Wood series, I mentioned that reading it...

May 10, 202114 min read

Prequel Problems: Star Trek First Contact and Enterprise

By Tom Anderson In my previous Prequel Problems article looking at the Star Trek franchise, I explored Judith and Garfield...

Apr 26, 202115 min read

Prequel Problems: Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet series

By Tom Anderson Jack Campbell is the nom de plume of American science fiction and fantasy writer John G. Hemry (b. 1956). Under his own...

Apr 12, 202115 min read

Prequel Problems: The Legend of Zelda

By Thomas Anderson This article is, I suspect, going to be controversial. I grew up with Sega consoles and was barely aware of Nintendo’s...

Mar 29, 202112 min read

Prequel Problems: Endeavour

By Tom Anderson In 1972, during a rather rainy family holiday to Wales, an author named Colin Dexter conceived an idea for a detective...

Mar 15, 202117 min read

Prequel Problems: Star Trek Federation vs First Contact

By Tom Anderson I keep coming back to the Star Trek franchise for subject matters in these Prequel Problems articles because it is so...

Mar 1, 202115 min read

Prequel Problems: Jar Jar Binks and the Curate’s Egg

By Tom Anderson Mention prequels and problems, and it is quite likely that your listener’s first thought will be of the Star Wars prequel...

Feb 1, 202113 min read

Prequel Problems: Star Trek and the Sixties Aesthetic

By Tom Anderson Star Trek is one of the most influential media franchises of modern times, itself stemming from one of the most...

Jan 18, 202116 min read

Prequel Problems: The Han Solo Triumph of A. C. Crispin

By Tom Anderson In two previous articles in this series, I discussed the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels released by Bantam between...

Jan 4, 202112 min read

Prequel Problems: The Animals of Farthing Wood

By Tom Anderson People of a certain age across the UK and Europe often have memories of watching The Animals of Farthing Wood as children...

Dec 21, 20208 min read

Prequel Problems: Aaron Allston and the Awesome Anticlimax

By Tom Anderson In a previous article in this series, I discussed the Bantam era of the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, and how many...

Dec 7, 202013 min read

Prequel Problems: Robert Jordan’s “New Spring”

By Tom Anderson One of the stereotypes of the fantasy genre from the 1970s onwards is that everything turns into an ever-expanding series...

Nov 23, 202012 min read

Prequel Problems: The Star Wars Sins and Wins of Michael A. Stackpole

By Tom Anderson Mention the words “Star Wars” in an article series entitled “Prequel Problems” and half the readers are now picturing bad...

Nov 9, 202015 min read

Prequel Problems: Sharpe’s Reading Order

By Tom Anderson In this article series discussing the problems surrounding the writing (and reading) of prequel works, one driving...

Oct 26, 202010 min read

Prequel Problems 3: The Romulan Straitjacket

By Thomas Anderson In this article I want to discuss a trope that reoccurs as a defining problem for writing many prequels (or indeed...

Oct 12, 202011 min read

Prequel Problems: Prelude to Dune

By Tom Anderson In this article series, I put forward the thesis that writing a prequel to an established work of media is one of the...

Sep 28, 20208 min read

Prequel Problems: Introduction

By Tom Anderson This is the first of a new series of writing-focused articles, in which I will review my experiences in what I regard as...

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