In Last Call, the Locus Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award winner by Tim Powers, ex-professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended—a contest he believed he walked away from a big winner—are drawing him back to the magical city.. because the mythic game did not end that night in /5(). Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Last Call. marked something of a watershed for Powers fans with the publication of the World Fantasy Award winning Last Call. This extraordinary novel, together with sequels Expiration Date and Earthquake Weather form a sequence known variously as The Last Call Trilogy, The Fisher King Trilogy and The California Trilogy. I don't believe any one of these labels has become the definitive name for .
This is the legacy explored in Tim Power's fantastical Last Call (). Last Call is the story of Scott Crane (aka Scarecrow Smith), the one-eyed adoptee of one of the greatest poker players ever to drift through the US's casinos and poker tournaments in the early 20 th century, a man named Ozzie Smith. Ozzie a superstitious guy, he warns. The Fault Lines series, aka Last Call series, aka The Fisher King trilogy — by Tim Powers. Urban Fantasy Set in Las Vegas, Last Call concerns the fate of Scott Crane, former professional gambler, recent widower, blind in one eye—and also the lost natural son of the man who is determined to kill him. In this novel, Crane is forced to resume the high-stakes game of a lifetime-—and wager. Powers discusses many of these recurring themes and motifs in his work at some length in the Tim Powers Interview which you will find elsewhere on this site. The Charnel House Limited Edition Just as with The Stress of Her Regard before it, Last Call was first published as a beautiful limited edition release by Joe Stefko's Charnel House.
Last Call, an urban fantasy novel by Tim Powers, follows Scott Crane, a recent widower and the child of Georges Leon, a powerful gambler who killed the proprietor of a hotel in Las Vegas to take control of a powerful Tarot deck-inspired system of magic. The book plays on the legend of the Fisher King, an Arthurian fable about the wounded king tasked with guarding the Holy Grail. Overview. In Last Call, the Locus Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award winner by Tim Powers, ex-professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended—a contest he believed he walked away from a big winner—are drawing him back to the magical city.. because the mythic game did not end that night in Last Call is my new favoritest book by Tim Powers. From a brain stimulating perspective, this produced a a significant amount of tingle by skillfully stroking a number of literary pleasure points. You know what I mean? First, I love the way the magical elements are woven credibly into the fabric of the story.
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