And the Devil Will Drag You Under (1979)
And the Devil Will Drag You Under is a 1979 demonology book written by Jack L. Chalker.
Asmodeus Mogart is a demon with a drinking problem and a demotion, sweating out his exile on Earth when a rogue asteroid promises to wipe the planet clean. His fix is absurd and his recruits are worse: Mac Walters and Jill McCullough, two strangers holding a private wake for the world in a Reno bar. The deal is simple to state and murderous to survive. Enter five alternate universes, steal one demon-guarded jewel from each, and maybe nobody dies. Then the pair wake naked and alone on the first hostile world, the gag suddenly real.
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What is And the Devil Will Drag You Under about?
Asmodeus Mogart is a demon with a drinking problem and a demotion, sweating out his exile on Earth when a rogue asteroid promises to wipe the planet clean. His fix is absurd and his recruits are worse: Mac Walters and Jill McCullough, two strangers holding a private wake for the world in a Reno bar. The deal is simple to state and murderous to survive. Enter five alternate universes, steal one demon-guarded jewel from each, and maybe nobody dies. Then the pair wake naked and alone on the first hostile world, the gag suddenly real.
When was And the Devil Will Drag You Under published?
And the Devil Will Drag You Under was published in 1979.
Who made And the Devil Will Drag You Under?
And the Devil Will Drag You Under was written by Jack L. Chalker.
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A few thoughts on And the Devil Will Drag You Under
Chalker runs the same engine as the world-hopping TV of Sliders and Quantum Leap: ordinary people dumped into strange rule-sets they have to crack fast. For the comic-catastrophe flavor, Time Bandits shares the ragtag-crew-versus-cosmic-stakes tone, treasure hunt included.
More of Jack L. Chalker's own multiverse-hopping series
Chalker sends Mac and Jill through five alternate universes in this novel, and his other series run the same restless, world-hopping engine. The Dancing Gods books send hapless heroes through a joke-filled fantasy multiverse, the Well World novels strand travelers on a planet built from a thousand competing biospheres, and The Web of the Chozen carries his same taste for characters remade by whatever world they land in.
Portal-hopping adventures across alternate worlds
Mac and Jill step through a demon-guarded doorway into a new world in every chapter, and these stories run on the same device. Sliders sends its cast tumbling into a different Earth every episode, Time Bandits follows a gang of dwarfs looting history through holes in time, Heavy Metal 2000 strings together its own set of pulpy alternate realities, and Quantum Leap drops its hero into a new stranger's life each week.
Demons played for pulpy comedy and adventure
Asmodeus Mogart is a demon too flawed and put-upon to be scary, and these works mine the same seam of comic infernal trouble. May Contain Traces of Magic and How to Make Friends with Demons play the underworld for laughs, Preacher and Hellboy let their demons anchor pulpy action instead of horror, and Tales of the Occult gathers more short fiction in the same devilish key.