The Price and The Prize

The Price and The Prize is a 124-page K/S anthology. 
It was the second zine Gayle F published and illustrated; her first was the K/S novel Mirrors of Mind and Flesh. 
"The Price and The Prize" is lavishly and explicitly illustrated with Gayle's drawings. There are three other pieces of art by Laurie Huff, Michael Verina, and Pat Stall. Art has been included on Fanlore with the publisher's permission.
The zine was referred to in several issues of STW Directory as "One Price and One Prize." It is unknown if this was a typo or the originally submitted title.
==Now Online==
The Price, including all the fanart, was available online beginning in 2010 in PDF, epub and MOBI format at The Kirk/Spock Fanfiction Archive and the author's website:
The story is now online at Archive of Our Own.
==The Price Series==
* Mission to Mrinn
* The Price
* The Prize
* Courts of Honor
==The Zine's Two Anchor Stories==
The zine was named for the two long stories that anchor it.
 
* The Price by Syn Ferguson, (prequel to her novel Courts of Honor). A newcomer to the Enterprise awakens troubling feelings in both Kirk and Spock. Before they have a chance to resolve things, Kirk sends Spock on a difficult mission from which the Vulcan will not return unscathed. 
*The Prize by Ray Newton, a famous early Kirk-as-slave-story, and Ancient-Vulcan story. On a Vulcan where Surak's Reforms never happened, the warrior Spock acquires a Human slave.
==Complete TOC==
 
* One Flesh 	 by Jane Aumerle ("Spock melds with a mortally wounded Kirk, and truths are finally revealed as they wait for medical attention." The first of her K/S series, prequel to two stories which appear in Thrust) (3)
* The Brothel	by Gayle F (A/U: "In an unreformed Vulcan, Spock discovers his soulmate in the human pleasure slave, Kirk.") (10)
* Night Takes Pawn 	by Della Van Hise (M/U: "Kirk gives himself to Spock, but needs to make it a game in order to do it.") (14)
* In Any Universe by Leslie Fish (18)
* The Price by Syn Ferguson ("An ancient artifact brings death to the Enterprise after it is unknowingly brought back with Spock and the rescued landing party." Prequel: Mission to Mrinn (gen). Sequel: Courts of Honor.) (21)
* Circle of Fire 	by Eileen Roy ("Spock does not know how to connect with Kirk's power.") (68)
* Taaz Avine	by Syn Ferguson ("Spock and McCoy are disguised as a Romulan and his slave while searching for the missing Kirk, who they discover has been turned into a prized sex-slave. An unusual story that includes (a reluctant) McCoy in the main K/S relationship.") (71)
* Turnaround 	by Pamela Rose (M/U: "Kirk seeks revenge against Spock's rape of him while he was trapped in Janice Lester's body.") (80)
*The Prize by Ray Newton (A/U: "Spock reluctantly accepts the human slave, James, after winning him from his sadistic master in a warrior challenge." Sequels: The Pleasure/The Reward.) (87)
==Covers==
Art has been included on Fanlore with the publisher's permission.
		Cover of 2nd edition, 1986	
==Gallery of Art by Others ==
The vast majority of art in "The Price and The Prize" was by Gayle F, but there were a few pieces by other fans, including the back cover (Pat Stall) and the frontispiece (Laurie Huff) and the inside back cover (Michael Verina).
Image:priceart1.jpg|frontispiece, Laurie Huff
Image:priceart2.jpg|inside back cover, Michael Verina
==Gallery of Art by Gayle F -- Non-Explicit==
Image:P&PilloPrize.jpg| for The Prize
Image:P&PNightTakesPawn.jpg| for Night Takes Pawn
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==Gallery of Art by Gayle F -- Explicit==
Most copies coming into Britain were seized by Customs because the pictures and art were sexually explicit.
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==Gallery of the Original Art==
Image:Gayle Feyrer 1981 Spock in braids (pub The Price and the Prize & Feyrer Fantasy)(JH Cat 029).jpg|original color art (printed as black and white in the zine)
File:Gayle Feyrer 1981 Spock on a towel (pub The Price and the Prize)(JH Cat 023).jpg
File:Gayle Feyrer 1980 Close up action (pub The Price and the Prize)(JH).jpg|original color art (printed as black and white in the zine)
File:Gayle Feyrer 1981 (pub The Price and the Prize & Feyrer Fantasy) (JH Cat 036).jpg|original color art (printed as black and white in the zine)
==Inspired Works==
The Prize has inspired other fans to create:
* The Reward by Debi, was printed in As I Do Thee #2.
* The Pleasure by Mara-Lyn Cade is a sequel in Naked Times #11, The Gift in Naked Times #12, and The Legacy in Naked Times #14.
* Break Thou My Sanctuary by Janet Alex, originally in Out of Bounds (Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves), also in Daring Attempt #2
==Some Reprints==
In 1981, Gayle placed an ad that says: "'The Price and The Prize' is sold out as a zine. I've put together some unbound, coverless copies, part offset, part xerox." The price of this 'The Price and the Prize' was $10, first class. from Universal Translator #10 
In 1986, the zine was reprinted with new cover art. "Gayle F has generously offered to bring out a limited second printing (18 illos 123 8 1/2 x 11 pages, 65% reduced) with new cover art. The cost is in line with the zine's classic stature, and any profits will go towards COH's deficit." from an ad in Datazine #38 
==Censorship and Customs==
Also see Print Zines and Customs.
Most copies coming into Britain were seized by Customs because of the explicit content. There were some reports that a disgruntled Star Trek fan, disapproving of slash, alerted UK customs to be on the lookout for packages with the publisher's return address.Morgan Dawn personal notes, based on conversations with K/S fans in the 1990s. A friend of Newton's explains that:
From A 2007 Interview with Valerie Piacentini: 
The seizure did not go unnoticed. In a 1981 issue of the UK letterzine STAG the editors wrote: 
The editors of STAG added in that same 1981 issue: 
Luckily, this was the only blanket seizure of K/S zines in the UK, although fans reported in various UK letterzines for many years thereafter that their packages had been opened and, on occasion, a few individual zines would be confiscated. Future shipments of the Price and the Prize were mailed from a different location.
==About Slavefic==
The Prize is AU BDSM slavefic. According to the author, "there was quite a bit of debate at the time as to whether slave stories were valid - some people took the position that Kirk and Spock would never take part in such a relationship, whatever universe they were in, or that if they did, Spock would immediately want to free Kirk."The Foresmutters Project. Commentary & Historical Background: The Prize by Ray Newton (Accessed 30 December 2009)
She took the view "that in a slave-based society, it would be so normal for Spock to own slaves (even Kirk) that it would take a considerable period of inter-relationship with someone strong enough to make him really think about the consequences of what slavery did to the psyche of the slaves for him to learn to change his opinion."
In "The Prize" she tried to show the evolution of the relationship and the process of learning through Spock's eyes. She also thought that "in such a society simply freeing one member of a slave race would be very dangerous for that slave, since he would not have even the meagre protection that the rules of ownership afforded. First the individual had to change, then gradually society." The author wrote a sequel to "The Prize," in which K & S left Vulcan, but it was never published.
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==References==
 
Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:1981 Zines