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. 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 . 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().
Tim Powers Tim Powers is a fantasy author best known for his award-winning novels, The Annubis Gates, Declare, and Last Call. Powers has written a lot about secret histories, which means that his works feature famous people and documented historical events. LAST CALL. Rich, top-flight mythic fantasy based on Jungian archetypes, Tarot symbolism, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and the Parsifal legend; by the smartly acclaimed author of On Stranger Tides, , etc. Luck could not flow with more Jungian synchronicity for Powers than his having cast Bugsy Siegel as The Fisher King in this long novel. Last Call. Dust jacket and interior illustrations by J.K. Potter. Subterranean Press is proud to present Tim Powers's Fisher King Trilogy in a matching hardcover set. Only one of the three, Last Call, has been released previously as a limited edition, in a gorgeous version published by Charnel House, now priced out of the range of most collectors.
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. The Fault Lines series, aka Last Call series, aka The Fisher King trilogy — by Tim. Last Call is a fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers. It was published by William Morrow Co in It is the first book in a loose trilogy called Fault Lines: the second book, Expiration Date, is vaguely related to Last Call, and the third book, Earthquake Weather, acts as a sequel to the first two books.
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