Magic Tricks

It would be erroneous for me to say that there is something for everyone in Mike Powers’ new book, Tesseract – Magic: The Hidden Dimension. It would be much more proper to say that there are some things for everyone. This book is packed with material for the card lover, the coin lover, the ring and rubber band enthusiast, the mentalist, the mathematician and the science aficionado. (Huh?! Trust me. It’ll make sense when you get your copy.)

There’s sleight of hand, there’s knuckle-busting sleight of hand, and there’s self-working. There are almost three hundred pages, of dare I say it, powerful magic. Heck, Mike even tosses in a couple of bonus effects from friends who have contributed to the project.

A couple of my personal favorites are Ring Bandit - I have performed Bill Kalush’s Rubber Ringer for years, but I have to tell you that Mike’s link is pure magic. It’ll fool you. Moe Fun, Flipped Out, Lying Traveler, and of course, Heisting Histed Heisted 3.0. also make my list, but there’s so much more!

This is a beautiful, large format book, sewn to lay flat so that you can study without propping pages open with your elbow, or with a deck of cards. The paper is thick and glossy, and the photographs clear and plentiful. Mike is a wonderful teacher, as you would expect from a physics professor, and his explanations and instructions are easy to understand and follow. For anyone unfamiliar with some of the moves required to properly perform some of the effects, Mike provides a link to his site, and a password, where students can access video explanations of basic sleights and moves.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was honored to help edit several of the tricks in the book, and received a free copy of the finished project. This should in no way diminish my positive assessment of the book. In fact, having insight into the labor, love, and time that Mike put into this project, might even provide my review with some additional weight. Or not. Bottom line: You will not be disappointed with this book. In fact, you will feel that you have received more than your money’s worth.