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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Big Blind by Lavie Tidhar


With its long and shady history, poker seems to have a natural affinity for fantasy writers, ranging from Edward Whittemore (
Jerusalem Poker) to Tim Powers (
Last Call). It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the ever-eclectic Lavie Tidhar turns his attention to it with
The Big Blind, which is peppered with cardsharp lingo and informed descriptions of high-stakes games. There’s not actually a shred of SF or fantasy in the novella, so the obvious question is, why mention it at all here? Well, Tidhar has long taken a kind of perverse glee in his own unpredictability, sometimes blurring the line between pointed literary allusiveness and simple attention deficit, as evidenced most recently by his bizarre reinvention of Arthurian legends in ....

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