[Bruin]

I'm digging up all sorts of old threads here.

I'm definitely a fan of using a prologue. As I've alluded to elsewhere the story upon which I'm working is set in two different periods anyway (near and far future) and my prologue is about a star ship captain making a terrible mistake seven years or so before the events in the far future segment kick off. My first chapter however starts with a scene in a corporate boardroom in near future London. Not only do I hope that the prologue will give some insight into one of the main characters but I'd also hope that the contrast between the two scenes would pique at the readers curiousity and to get them to want to understand how these two vastly different events can be connected.