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''Last Call'' won the [[World Fantasy Award for Best Novel]] and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1993.<ref name="WWE-1993">{{cite web
''Last Call'' won the [[World Fantasy Award for Best Novel]] and the [[Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel]] in 1993.<ref name="WWE-1993">{{cite web
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| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1993
| title = 1993 Award Winners & Nominees
| title = 1993 Award Winners & Nominees

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Last Call
AuthorTim Powers
SpracheEnglisch
SeriesFault Lines series
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
Publication date
1992
Publication placeVereinigte Staaten
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages479 pp
ISBNISBN 0-688-10732-X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
OCLC24468483
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3566.O95 L37 1992
Followed byExpiration Date 

Last Call (1992) is a fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It was published in New York by Harper Collins in 1996 with ISBN 0-380-72846-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

  1. ^ "1993 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-21.