Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place. I think this is a question for Jim, although it may have already been answered somewhere and I just didn't find it. If so, sorry!

I've just finished reading Side Jobs and my question is about the story "Last Call". Is the title of the story a nod towards the Tim Powers book of the same name?

My thinking is that the novel Last Call is related to and the sequel explicitly mentions both

(I've marked as spoiler's above. I read the policy and don't think this is a spoiler but, I wanted to err on the side of caution)

In my head the connection just jumped out, of course that could quite easily just be in my head …