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Country United States Series Fault Lines series Pages 479 pp Followed by Expiration Date | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1992 Originally published April 1992 Genre Fantasy literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Publisher William Morrow and Company Awards World Fantasy Award—Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Similar Tim Powers books, World Fantasy Award—Novel winners, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
Contents
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.