Last Call (novel)

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Last Call
Author Tim Powers
Country United States
Language English
Series Fault Lines series
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher William Morrow & Co
Publication date
1992
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 479 pp
Award Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1993)
ISBN 0-688-10732-X
OCLC 24468483
813/.54 20
LC Class PS3566.O95 L37 1992
Followed by Expiration Date

Last Call (1992) is a fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It was published by William Morrow & Co in 1992 with ISBN 0-688-10732-X. It is the first book in a loose trilogy called Fault Lines; the second book, Expiration Date (1995), is vaguely related to Last Call, the third book, Earthquake Weather (1997), acts as a sequel to the first two books.

Major themes

Like many of Powers' novels, Last Call features a detailed magic system, here based on divinatory tarot, and draws on mythical or historical events and characters, in this case Bugsy Siegel and the development of Las Vegas casinos as well as the legend of the Fisher King. Powers makes use of T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land throughout, which also features the Fisher King legend.

Awards

Last Call won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1993.[1]

References

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