Last Call: Fantasy Masterworks

Tim Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at California State University, gaining a degree in English. It was at University that he met K.W. Jeter and James Blaylock, who became friends and occasional collaborators, and the three of them are regarded as the founding fathers of the steampunk literary movement. He was also a friend of noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Tim Powers is the author of many highly regarded novels and among his many honours are two PHILIP K. DICK AWARDs (for THE ANUBIS GATES and DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE) and two WORLD FANTASY AWARDs (for LAST CALL and DECLARE). The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film is based on his 1988 novel ON STRANGER TIDES. Tim Powers lives in California with his wife Serena.

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.
Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.

“Dazzling . . . a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly.” — Dean Koontz
“There’s never been a novel quite like DECLARE…one of the protean Powers’s most absorbing and rewarding creations.” — Kirkus Starred Review
“Highly ingenious . . . No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“DECLARE is classic Tim Powers, his best novel since Last Call, and possibly his best to date.” — Locus Magazine
“Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare’s occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined.” — William Gibson