The Prize in the Game
{{short description|2002 novel by Jo Walton}}
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{{Infobox book |
| name = The Prize in the Game
| image = ThePrizeInTheGameCover.jpg
| caption = Tor Books hardcover
| author = Jo Walton
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = Jean Pierre Targete
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Fantasy
| publisher = Tor Books
| pub_date = December 2002 (1st edition)
| media_type = Print (Hardcover)
| pages = 256 (hardcover, 1st edition)
| isbn = 0-7653-0263-2
| isbn_note = (hardcover, 1st edition)
| dewey= 823/.92 21
| congress= PR6073.A448 P75 2002
| oclc= 49873356
| series =
| followed_by = The King's Peace
}}
The Prize in the Game is a fantasy novel by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published by Tor Books in December 2002. The novel is a prequel to Walton's first two novels, The King's Peace (2000) and The King's Name (2001); its main characters appear as minor or off-stage characters in those books. The story was loosely inspired by the Táin Bó Cúailnge.{{cite newsgroup |title= Message from discussion _Prize in the Game_, Walton: Review, Wibblings (long)|author= Walton, Jo|date= 5 March 2001|newsgroup=rec.arts.sf.written |url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/fae941b16483b4c1?dmode=source }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20010205140900/http://www.bluejo.demon.co.uk/sulien/index.htm The King's Peace Page Index] Walton's site via the Wayback Machine
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080527231236/http://www.zorinth.net/bluejo/books/prize/prize.htm Full text of the novel (under CCL)]
=Reviews=
- {{cite news |first=Christopher |last=Cobb |work=Strange Horizons |title=Strife Without Bitterness: Jo Walton's The Prize in the Game |url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030526/prize.shtml |date=May 23, 2003}}
- {{cite news |first=Steven H |last=Silver |author-link=Steven H Silver |title=The SF Site Featured Review: The Prize in the Game |url=http://www.sfsite.com/04a/pg149.htm |work=SF Site |year=2003}}
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