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* [[Career Killers]]: Al Funo in ''Last Call'' |
* [[Career Killers]]: Al Funo in ''Last Call'' |
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* [[The Chessmaster]]: Neal Obstadt. It doesn't work out well for him. |
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Neal Obstadt. It doesn't work out well for him. |
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* [[Creator In-Joke]]: When Tim Powers and James Blaylock were in college together, they invented a fake poet named "William Ashbless" to satirize the quality of their college's literary magazine. Nearly every novel Powers has written has had a reference to Ashbless in it somewhere -- most famously ''The Anubis Gates'', in which he appears as a major character. |
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: In ''Three Days to Never'' (though strictly speaking it's a dybbuk, not a demon); ''Expiration Date'' has possession by ghosts. |
* [[Demonic Possession]]: In ''Three Days to Never'' (though strictly speaking it's a dybbuk, not a demon); ''Expiration Date'' has possession by ghosts. |
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* [[Disguised in Drag]]: In ''Last Call'' the protagonist dresses in drag to infiltrate a party being hosted by the villain. In defiance of the usual subtropes, nobody is in any doubt about his sex, let alone [[Attractive Bent Gender|strangely attracted to him]] -- but it serves perfectly as a disguise in as much as nobody suspects for a moment that it's him. |
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: In ''Last Call'' the protagonist dresses in drag to infiltrate a party being hosted by the villain. In defiance of the usual subtropes, nobody is in any doubt about his sex, let alone [[Attractive Bent Gender|strangely attracted to him]] -- but it serves perfectly as a disguise in as much as nobody suspects for a moment that it's him. |
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* [[If I Do Not Return]]: Twice in ''Last Call''; both times, the end of the sentence is some form of "assume I'm dead and get the heck out of here". |
* [[If I Do Not Return]]: Twice in ''Last Call''; both times, the end of the sentence is some form of "assume I'm dead and get the heck out of here". |
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* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Shows up again and again in his work. |
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Shows up again and again in his work. |
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* [[Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy]]: An emergency tracheotomy performed by a non-professional is a key plot event in ''Three Days to Never''. It's not a neat Hollywood tracheotomy, though, and has serious repercussions. |
* [[Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy]]: An emergency tracheotomy performed by a non-professional is a key plot event in ''Three Days to Never''. It's not a neat Hollywood tracheotomy, though, and has serious repercussions. |
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* [[Literary Work of Magic]]: In ''Three Days To Never'', it turns out [[Charlie Chaplin]] worked symbolic imagery into ''City Lights'' as part of a magical ritual to attempt to bring his son back from the dead. An earlier movie he'd worked on but never shown to the public is part of the [[MacGuffin]]; [[Albert Einstein]] had to talk Chaplin out of showing the movie, as the mojo generated by the imagery would likely fry some audience brains. |
* [[Literary Work of Magic]]: In ''Three Days To Never'', it turns out [[Charlie Chaplin]] worked symbolic imagery into ''City Lights'' as part of a magical ritual to attempt to bring his son back from the dead. An earlier movie he'd worked on but never shown to the public is part of the [[MacGuffin]]; [[Albert Einstein]] had to talk Chaplin out of showing the movie, as the mojo generated by the imagery would likely fry some audience brains. |
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* [[Lost Him in a Card Game]]: ''Last Call'' features a particularly twisted variation. |
* [[Lost Him in a Card Game]]: ''Last Call'' features a particularly twisted variation. |
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