Last Call (novel)

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Last Call

First edition
Author	Tim Powers
Cover artist	Rick Lovell
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Fault Lines series
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	William Morrow & Co
Publication date	1992
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	479
Award	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1993)
ISBN	0-688-10732-X
OCLC	24468483
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3566.O95 L37 1992
Followed by	Expiration Date

Last Call is a fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers. It was published by William Morrow & Co in 1992. It is the first book in a loose trilogy called Fault Lines: the second book, Expiration Date (1995), is vaguely related to Last Call, and 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[]

External links[]

• Last Call title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Last Call at Worlds Without End

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