Last Call--Tim Powers
Anyone else read this incredible sci-fi novel about Poker? It's truly an amazing piece of fantasy that is guaranteed to induce obsessive compulsive disorder if not full-blown paranoid schizophrenia. What Little/Big is to architecture so Last Call is to Poker. It was written in the Late 80s too, so there are some fantastic scenes set in pre-boom CA cardrooms and Vegas.
It’s also a fascinating meditation of the spiritual meaning of chance. Good stuff all-round. Read it.
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