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The Prize in the Game - Jo Walton

By Jo Walton

Release Date: 2023-07-03

Genre: Fantasy

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Itā€™s a version of the Irish story of the Tain Bo Cuailgne, set in the world of the Sulien books. It features some of the minor characters in those books, before they appear there. Itā€™s essentially their backstory. I had the idea for it by considering that the names Guinevere (Gwynhwyfar) and Fionnbharr are etymologically identical, and considering that if Fionnbharr in the Tain grew up to be Guinevere that would explain some of Guinevereā€™s subsequent behaviour. Thatā€™s where I got Elenn from. Her sister Emer came from the ā€œdoublingā€ of Guinevere in a number of sources, where Guinevere has a ā€œbadā€ sister. I put Emer and Elenn into the Sulien books grown up and formed, and then discovered that fewer people know the Tain than I had imagined. I wrote The Prize in the Game to elucidate this. This is the story of fifteen year olds in a warrior culture. It was interesting taking characters I already knew well as adults, and where I had already written the ends of their stories (in Conalā€™s case even his death) and writing about how they came to be those people.
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The Prize in the Game - Jo Walton

By Jo Walton

Release Date: 2023-07-03

Genre: Fantasy

(0 ratings)
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Itā€™s a version of the Irish story of the Tain Bo Cuailgne, set in the world of the Sulien books. It features some of the minor characters in those books, before they appear there. Itā€™s essentially their backstory. I had the idea for it by considering that the names Guinevere (Gwynhwyfar) and Fionnbharr are etymologically identical, and considering that if Fionnbharr in the Tain grew up to be Guinevere that would explain some of Guinevereā€™s subsequent behaviour. Thatā€™s where I got Elenn from. Her sister Emer came from the ā€œdoublingā€ of Guinevere in a number of sources, where Guinevere has a ā€œbadā€ sister. I put Emer and Elenn into the Sulien books grown up and formed, and then discovered that fewer people know the Tain than I had imagined. I wrote The Prize in the Game to elucidate this. This is the story of fifteen year olds in a warrior culture. It was interesting taking characters I already knew well as adults, and where I had already written the ends of their stories (in Conalā€™s case even his death) and writing about how they came to be those people.
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