Book om en professor som kallar en kvinnlig demon

En personlig demon (1985) av David Bischoff , Rich Brown och Linda Richardson ; även svaret på den här gamla fråga .

Framsidans blurb:

A college professor conjures up a shapely demon to live within the laws of our world.

Ursprungligen publicerad i Fantastiskt som en serie av noveller och noveller på " Michael FX Milhaus ". De ursprungliga berättelserna var: "En personlig demon" ( Februari 1976 , tillgänglig på < a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_v25n02_1976-02"> Internetarkiv ); "In a Pig's Eye" ( maj 1976 , tillgängligt på Internet Archive ); "Med goda avsikter" ( september 1977 , tillgänglig på Internetarkiv ); "Ett trick av svansen" ( December 1977 , tillgängligt på Internet Archive ); och "där änglar fruktar att tråka" ( april 1978 ).

Jag har inte en kopia av boken; Följande utdrag är från den ursprungliga novellen den bygger på:

"Like I was saying, you need some guts. Some self-assertion. I know your problems, I can sympathize. But it takes action to clean out your skull—"

"Who says I want to clean out my skull?"

"You want to be head of the Literature Department, don't you?"

"I didn't give you permission to poke around inside my brain."

"You didn't tell me not to, either. If you want to succeed, stick with me. I'll help you. Now listen—"

"Hold it!" Willis objected. "Let me get things straight. I call up a demon, and suddenly she wants to control my life. Well you listen, Ana—Ana—" The alcohol was slurring his voice. "Anny, I am fully capable of messing up my life on my own without your help."

"That's my point."

"I mean—"

"Yeah." She smiled at him. "You can be saved. I like you, Willy. You did me a favor getting me out of Hell." She drew at her cigarette. "I'm going to do you a few favors. As the pug said to the belly dancer, 'Stick with me, baby, and I'll wrap your ass in silk.' The first is to get you this job you want so much—though Satan knows why you want it. Wouldn't you rather have a few million bucks? Maybe a yacht and—"

"I want to be head of the department. I have ideas on teaching I want to implement and—"

"Okay. Okay. The money you'll want later. Right now we'll settle for this rather petty ambition." She blew a triangle of smoke in has face, causing him to cough. Funny kind of smell, he thought twitching his nose.