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List Of Prequels
This is a list of prequels. Works with darker gray background shading have been primarily described as a sequel, remake, or reboot, but have also been regarded as prequels in a broad sense of the word. Literature Plays Films Channel and television series Feature films Comics Consoles, computer and video games Manga and anime {, class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;" , - ! width="50%" , Prequel !! Original , - , ''Fist of the Blue Sky'' (2001–current) , ''Fist of the North Star'' (1983–1988) , - , '' Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku'' (1990)''Jaco the Galactic Patrolman'' (2013) , ''Dragon Ball'' (1984–1995 manga series)''Dragon Ball'' (1986–1989 anime) , - , ''Dragon Ball Super'' (2015–2018)'' Dragon Ball Super: Broly'' (2018) , ''Dragon Ball GT'' (1996–1997) , - , '' Go Nagai's Demon Knight'' (2007) , ''Devilman'' (1972) , - , '' Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre'' (2006) , ''Rozen Maiden'' (2004)'' Rozen Maiden: Träumend'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequel
A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the same fictional universe as an earlier work, usually chronologically following the events of that work. In many cases, the sequel continues elements of the original story, often with the same characters and settings. A sequel can lead to a series, in which key elements appear repeatedly. Although the difference between more than one sequel and a series is somewhat arbitrary, it is clear that some media franchises have enough sequels to become a series, whether originally planned as such or not. Sequels are attractive to creators and to publishers because there is less risk involved in returning to a story with known popularity rather than developing new and untested characters and settings. Audiences are sometimes eager for more stories about p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before Green Gables
''Before Green Gables'' is the title of a prequel to the Anne Shirley series.Penguin Books ltd., Press Release: December 14, 2007. The book was published in 2008 by Puffin, a division of Penguin Books, as part of Puffin's celebration of Anne Shirley's centennial anniversary, which sees the Anne Shirley series re-released to commemorate the event. The first book in the Anne Shirley series was ''Anne of Green Gables'', which was published in 1908. The author of the prequel is Canadian children's author Budge Wilson. In the official press release, Budge Wilson wrote: "I will, of course, try to be true to the astonishing character that Lucy Maud Montgomery created… But I would not – in fact, could not – presume to tell my part of Anne's history in Montgomery's voice. I will do this in my own voice, hoping that she would approve of the project if she were alive today." Synopsis This book describes Anne's difficult pre-Green-Gables childhood. That time includes the deaths of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation (Isaac Asimov Novel)
''Foundation'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. It is the first published in his ''Foundation Trilogy'' (later expanded into the ''Foundation'' series). ''Foundation'' is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published as a single book by Gnome Press in 1951. Collectively they tell the early story of the Foundation, an institute founded by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve the best of galactic civilization after the collapse of the Galactic Empire. Origin and early publication history Four of the five stories had been earlier published in '' Astounding Science Fiction'' between 1942 and 1944 under different titles. A fifth part, the first in fictional chronology, was added for the 1951 Gnome Press edition. The original four stories also appeared in 1955 as part of Ace's double novel series as D-110 under the title ''The 1,000-Year Plan''. Two further books, each consisting of two novellas, were published shortly after and the thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forward The Foundation
''Forward the Foundation'' is a novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published posthumously in 1993. It is the second of two prequels to the ''Foundation'' Series. It is written in a format similar to that of the original book, ''Foundation'', composed of chapters with long intervals in between, although ''Forward'' takes place within only one lifetime. Both books were first published as independent short stories in science fiction magazines. The parallels between Hari Seldon and Isaac Asimov found in this book— the last one written by Asimov before his death— and the focus on Hari Seldon as he grows old and dies, strengthen the idea that Asimov considered Seldon his literary alter ego. Critics such as Josh Wimmer and Alasdair Wilkins have regarded many of the opinions and viewpoints expressed by Seldon in this book as autobiographical. Thus, they say, a detailed reading of ''Forward the Foundation'' can shed light on Asimov's inner thoughts at the end of his life. Like ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelude To Foundation
''Prelude to Foundation'' is a novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1988. It is one of two prequels to the ''Foundation'' series. For the first time, Asimov chronicles the fictional life of Hari Seldon, the man who invented psychohistory and the intellectual hero of the series. The novel was nominated for the Locus Award. Plot summary Prelude to Foundation is set in the year 12,020 G.E. (Galactic Era), during the rocky reign of the Emperor Cleon I. It starts with Seldon's presentation of a paper at a mathematics convention detailing how psychohistory might theoretically make it possible to predict the future. The Emperor of the Galactic Empire learns of this and wants to use Seldon for political gain. In a face-to-face interview, Seldon emphasizes that psychohistory is something that he has not even begun developing or even has a clear idea how to do so, but Cleon is not wholly convinced that Hari is of no use to the Empire. Seldon then meets reporter Chetter H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hills Of Varna
''The Hills of Varna'' (published in the USA as ''Shadow of the Hawk'') is a children's historical novel by Geoffrey Trease, published in 1948. It is an adventure story based on the revival of classical scholarship in the Renaissance. Plot Introduction The book is set mainly in continental Europe during the first decade of the 16th century. The central character, a young Englishman, is sent by Erasmus to find the lost manuscript of an ancient Greek play at a monastery in the Balkans. Summary In 1509, Alan Drayton, a young Yorkshireman, has to leave his college in Cambridge after a tavern brawl. His tutor Erasmus sends him to the continent to try to retrieve a manuscript of ''The Gadfly'', a lost play by the ancient Greek writer Alexis from the time of Socrates. He believes that it is in the monastery of Varna in the Balkans. Alan intends to deliver the play to the printer Aldus Manutius in Venice, refusing to take employment with the ruthless Duke of Molfetta, who wants the pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crown Of Violet
''The Hills of Varna'' (published in the USA as ''Shadow of the Hawk'') is a children's historical novel by Geoffrey Trease, published in 1948. It is an adventure story based on the revival of classical scholarship in the Renaissance. Plot Introduction The book is set mainly in continental Europe during the first decade of the 16th century. The central character, a young Englishman, is sent by Erasmus to find the lost manuscript of an ancient Greek play at a monastery in the Balkans. Summary In 1509, Alan Drayton, a young Yorkshireman, has to leave his college in Cambridge after a tavern brawl. His tutor Erasmus sends him to the continent to try to retrieve a manuscript of ''The Gadfly'', a lost play by the ancient Greek writer Alexis from the time of Socrates. He believes that it is in the monastery of Varna in the Balkans. Alan intends to deliver the play to the printer Aldus Manutius in Venice, refusing to take employment with the ruthless Duke of Molfetta, who wants the pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requiem (short Story)
"Requiem" is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, a sequel to his science fiction novella "The Man Who Sold the Moon", although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story, in ''Astounding'', January 1940. The story was also performed as a play on October 27, 1955, on the NBC Radio Network program ''X Minus One''. It is also the first story in the retrospective '' Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master''. Plot The story centers around D. D. Harriman, the lead character of ''The Man Who Sold the Moon''. Harriman, a tycoon and latter-day robber baron, had always dreamed of going to the Moon, and had spent much of his career and resources making space flight a practical commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, his business partners prevented him from taking the early flights because they could not risk the public face of their company. Now an old man, Harriman has still not been to the Moon, a fact that fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Sold The Moon
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" is a science fiction novella by American author Robert A. Heinlein, written in 1949 and published in 1950. A part of his ''Future History'' and prequel to "Requiem", it covers events around a fictional first Moon landing in 1978 and the schemes of Delos D. Harriman, a businessman who is determined to personally reach and control the Moon. Plot Delos David "D. D." Harriman, "the last of the Robber Barons", is obsessed with being the first to travel to—and possess—the Moon. He asks his business partner, George Strong, and other tycoons to invest in the venture. Most dismiss Harriman's plans as foolhardy: Nuclear rocket fuel is scarce as the space station that produces it blew up, also destroying the only existing spaceship. The necessary technology for a chemical-fueled rocket stretches the boundaries of current engineering. The endeavor is both incredibly costly and of uncertain profitability. One skeptic offers to sell "all of my interes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happy Return
''The Happy Return'' (''Beat to Quarters'' in the US) is the first of the Horatio Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester. It was published in 1937. The American title is derived from the expression " beat to quarters", which was the signal to prepare for combat. This book is sixth by internal chronology of the series (including the unfinished ''Hornblower and the Crisis''). Hornblower's past history as described here does not entirely accord with his history as revealed in the stories written later, but Forester never revised the book. It is one of three ''Hornblower'' novels adapted for the British-American film ''Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.'', released in 1951. Plot summary In June 1808 Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS ''Lydia'', with secret orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua (near modern Choluteca, Choluteca) and supply a local landowner, Don Julian Alvarado ("descendant" of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornblower And The Crisis
''Hornblower and the Crisis'' is a 1967 historical novel by C. S. Forester. It forms part of the Horatio Hornblower series, and as a result of Forester's death in 1966, it was left unfinished. There is a one-page summary of the last several chapters of the book found on the final page, taken from notes left behind from the author. It was the eleventh and last book of the series to be published, but it is fourth in chronological sequence. Plot summary Hornblower has just finished his tour blockading Brest in command of the Royal Navy sloop ''Hotspur''. As he travels back to England for his next assignment (and his promised elevation to post rank), he is asked to participate in the court martial of ''Hotspur's'' new captain. ''Hotspur'' ran aground and was lost the day after Hornblower turned over command. Following the court martial, the ''Hotspur's'' officers, now without a ship, travel back to England with Hornblower in a supply ship. On the way, they are pursued by a French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornblower And The Hotspur
''Hornblower and the Hotspur'' (published 1962) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It is the third book in the series chronologically, but the tenth by order of publication, and serves as the basis for one of the episodes of the '' Hornblower'' series of television films. Plot summary On 2 April 1802 Hornblower marries Maria, the daughter of his landlady, at the " church of St Thomas à Becket" in Portsmouth. He is unable to bring himself to be so cruel as to stop the ceremony despite thinking that "Maria was not the right woman to be his wife." Hornblower had, just days before, been promoted commander into HM sloop ''Hotspur'' as the fragile Peace of Amiens is breaking down and Britain is re-arming for a new war with France under Napoleon Bonaparte. His new commander, Admiral William Cornwallis, permits him a brief honeymoon before ordering him to set sail on a delicate mission. ''Hotspur'' reconnoiters the approaches to the French naval base of Brest, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
