Title: The Prestige

Title: The Prestige Title Record # 4668
Author: Christopher Priest
Date: 1995-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: christopher-priest.co.uk, Wikipedia-EN, YouTube
Language: English

Synopsis: A magician called Borden (at least in private) writes his own version of his life as a magician. There's a lot of focus on a trick, where he seems to move across any width of stage in an instant, and on a feud with another magician, Angier. The account includes passages, where he can't decide what exactly to write, arguing with himself. 3 generations later a Borden (at least biologically) learns about his ancestor. He's also convinced, he somehow has a twin brother, who's happy about this development.

User Rating: 8.33 (3 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: fantasy (1), steampunk (1), magician (1), electricity (1), Nicola Tesla (1), Colorado (1), london (1), diaries (1), twins (1), teleportation (1), human duplication (1), into-movie (1), murder (1), Nikola Tesla (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
1997^ⓘTranslated by Michael Morgental	German	Das Kabinett des Magiers
2006^ⓘTranslated by Diana Bobonete	Romanian	Magicienii
2006^ⓘTranslated by Michelle Charrier	French	Le prestige
2007^ⓘTranslated by Békési József, Sándor Zoltán	Hungarian	A tökéletes trükk^?A tokeletes trukk A toekeeletes truekk
2007^ⓘTranslated by Isabel C. Penteado.	Portuguese	O terceiro passo
2007^ⓘ Translated by Michael Morgental Revised translation	German	Prestige: Die Meister der Magie
2008	Portuguese	O Prestígio

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1995 BSFA	Best Novel
Win	1996 World Fantasy	Best Novel
Finalists	1996 Clarke	Best Science Fiction Novel
Preliminary Nominees	1996 Stoker	Superior Achievement in a Novel
Preliminary Nominees	1996 BFA	August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)
9	1997 Locus	Best Fantasy Novel
Nomination (as Das Kabinett des Magiers)	1998 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bestes ausländisches Werk

Publications

Not displaying translations • Display all variants and translations • Do not display variants or translations

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Prestige	1995-09-00	Christopher Priest	Touchstone / Simon & Schuster UK	0-671-71924-6	£15.99^?£: UK pound	404	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Prestige	1996-09-00	Christopher Priest	Touchstone / Simon & Schuster UK	0-684-81755-1	£6.99^?£: UK pound	404	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Prestige	1996-10-00	Christopher Priest	St. Martin's Press	0-312-14705-8	$24.95^?$: US dollar	404	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Greg Spalenka
The Prestige	1997-09-00	Christopher Priest	Tor	0-312-85886-8	$14.95^?$: US dollar	404	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Giovanni Battista Bracelli
The Prestige	2004-00-00	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07580-5	£7.99^?£: UK pound	360	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Prestige	2006-09-19	Christopher Priest	Tor	0-765-31734-6	$14.95^?$: US dollar	360	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Prestige	2006-10-01	Christopher Priest	Blackstone Audiobooks	0-7861-6841-2	$25.95^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel
The Prestige	2006-10-01	Christopher Priest	Blackstone Audiobooks	0-7861-4629-X	$25.95^?$: US dollar		audio cassette^?Cassette tape	novel
The Prestige	2006-10-03	Christopher Priest	Tor	0-765-35617-1	$7.99^?$: US dollar	360	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Prestige	2006-11-00	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07906-1	£7.99^?£: UK pound	360	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Prestige	2008-04-03	Christopher Priest	Gollancz	978-1-4091-0003-4	£16.99^?£: UK pound		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel
The Prestige	2011-02-10	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-09941-8	£7.99^?£: UK pound	ix+ 369	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Sidonie Beresford-Browne
The Prestige	2011-07-14	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-11496-8	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Sidonie Beresford-Browne
The Prestige	date unknown	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-09941-8		ix+ 369	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Sidonie Beresford-Browne
The Prestige	date unknown	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07580-5	£7.99^?£: UK pound	360	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel

View all covers for The Prestige (logged in users can change User Preferences to always display covers on this page)

Reviews

Review by John Grant (1995) in SFX, #4
Review by Paul Kincaid (1995) in Vector 185
Review by Faren Miller (1995) in Locus, #418 November 1995
Review by John Clute (1995) in Interzone, #101 November 1995 , reprinted in:
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2003)
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2016)
Review by Bruce Gillespie (1996) in Scratch Pad, #16, (unknown)
Review [French] by Serge Delsemme (1996) in Yellow Submarine, #118
Review by David Langford (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1996
Review by Sylvia Gimenez (1996) in Fangoria, October 1996
Review by Gahan Wilson (1996) in Realms of Fantasy, October 1996
Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1997) in Locus, #435 April 1997
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1997) in Science Fiction Chronicle, April/May 1997
Review by Martin Sketchley (1997) in Vector 193
Review by Elizabeth Hand (1997) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1997
Review by Lisa DuMond (1997) in SF Site, December 1997, (1997)
Review by David Bischoff (1997) in Science Fiction Eye, #15, Fall 1997
Review by Mark L. Olson (1998) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1998
Review by Linda Archer (1998) in Dragon Magazine, June 1998
Review [French] by Pascal Patoz (2001) in Galaxies, #22
Review by Colin Steele (2001) in SF Commentary, #77
Review by uncredited (2006) in Vector 248
Review [German] by Gunther Barnewald (2007) in Pandora, Spring 2007
Review by Bruce Gillespie (2010) in SF Commentary, #80A
Review by John Howard (2011) in BFS Journal, Summer 2011
Review by David Hebblethwaite (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2
Review by Jonathan Terrington (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2