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By Thomas Anderson The trilogy, as a model for media, is so omnipresent in the modern world that we scarcely stop to notice it anymore....

By Thomas Anderson Yes, it’s yet another Prequel Problems article about Star Trek; this setting, with its several well-defined eras and...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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