The Immortals
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Creator: Tracy Hickman
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Podiobooks.com in association with Dragonhearth Productions, presents New York Times Best Selling Author Tracy Hickman's cautionary tale... The Immortals.The future story of United States Internment Camps ... of the dreams of the pre-deceased ... and of triumph beyond oblivion.It's 2020, and an attempted cure for AIDS has mutated into a deadlier disease, V-CIDS. The U.S., under martial law, has set up "quarantine centers" in the Southwest. Searching for his gay son, Jon, media mogul Michael Barris smuggles himself into one of centers only to discover that it and the other centers are actually extermination camps. With a strange assortment of allies, including the leader of the camp's gay barracks, an army officer and a local cowboy, Barris precipitates an inmates' rebellion that promises the unraveling of the death-camp system and the overthrow of the government that established it.As read and performed by Tracy and Laura Hickman. Published as a podiobook during the ten-year anniversary of its first printing."Powerful... disturbing... A vision of the future that is all too possible..." Margaret Weis"Masterful ... sensitive ... controversial ... Hickman holds up a mirror to our society." R. A. Salvatore"Excellent and exciting ... An important book..." Robin Wayne Bailey.
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Episodes:
Chapter 40: Mountain Man, Epilogue: Phoenix and Afterword - The Immortals
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein sides are taken, the dead become immortal and the author has a final word.
Chapter 39: Ferrets - The Immortals
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein unwelcome visitors arrive late at night.
Chapter 38: Talons - The Immortals
Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein everyone shares a single, mercilless instant.
Chapter 37: Ghost Train - The Immortals
Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein someone casts the first stone and the dead help the living.
Chapter 36: Groundhog Day - The Immortals
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the Reverend learns a lesson too late.
Chapter 35: Partings - The Immortals
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael steals a life and gives it to someone else.
Chapter 34: Twenty Pieces - The Immortals
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein a man sells his soul and never collects.
Chapter 33: Sappers and Spelunkers - The Immortals
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein secret places are planned and discovered.
Chapter 32: Music - The Immortals
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein art becomes life.
Chapter 31: The Immortals - The Immortals
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein death is found not to be a crime.
Chapter 30: Remember Me - The Immortals
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Amanda remembers her mother.
Chapter 29: Belly of the Beast - The Immortals
Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the Mayor is looking for both lost boys and answers.
Chapter 28: The Reins of Power - The Immortals
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the Just and the Unjust meet on the Sabbath.
Chapter 27: Just Like Us - The Immortals
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein light and dark confront one another.
Chapter 26: Of Command and Control - The Immortals
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein authority must be established at any cost.
Chapter 25:Entr'Acte and The Children's Crusade - The Immortals
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the dead decide to live once more.
Chapter 24: Blood - The Immortals
Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael takes matters into his own hands.
Chapter 23: Confessions - The Immortals
Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael confesses his reasons for breaking into the camp.
Chapter 22: Detour - The Immortals
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein everyone's plans take a wrong turn.
Chapter 21: Erik's Silence - The Immortals
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein we hear the awful depth of Erik Simm's silence.
Chapter 20: The Monkey Chased the Weasel - The Immortals
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein a quiet woman finds a reason to kill and Michael discovers the awful truth about Emily.
Chapter 19: Sunshine - The Immortals
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the horrors of the camp are shut out of the small world within Amanda.
Chapter 18: New in Town - The Immortals
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Virgil wakes up in more ways than one.
Chapter 17: 'Tis of Thee - The Immortals
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the Captain learns the truth about ERIS and VCIDS.
Chapter 16: Son - The Immortals
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael reflects on his failures and learns to be careful about his wishes.
Chapter 15 - Thunder in My Soul - The Immortals
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein a cowboy has a ring-side seat a little too close to a holocaust.
Chapter 14: Joyride - The Immortals
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Virgil and the boys follow a rabbit into hell.
Chapter 13: Revelers - The Immortals
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the puppet in a show trial finds that death is the lenient sentence.
Chapter 12: The Twilight Man - The Immortals
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein one man stands above two worlds and another man falls between them.
Chapter 11: Recreation. - The Immortals
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael discovers that the best morale officer is a dead morale officer.
Chapter 10 - Heigh-ho - The Immortals
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael considers the meaning of work among the pre-dead.
Chapter 9 - Virgil - The Immortals
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein a cowboy from a forgotten town decides to put it back on the map.
Chapter 8 - Dawning - The Immortals
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael is awakened from one nightmare to deal with someone lost in a dream.
Chapter 7 - Nobody Lives Here - The Immortals
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael meets Sid, the barracks supervisor and learns the upside-down language of the camp.
Chapter 6: Down the Abyss - The Immortals
Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael learns the terrible truth of why only the dead walk alone.
Chapter 5: The Powers that Be - The Immortals
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein the true nature of the camps is revealed and we learn what it means to be 'pre-deceased.'
Chapter 4: The Reverend and the Bulldog - The Immortals
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael is confronted by the Governor of the camp -- and the need to choose sides.
Chapter 3: Nurse - The Immortals
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Nurse Codgeburry uncovers Michael's apparent secret.
Chapter 2: Newhouse - The Immortals
Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein Michael Barris is carried over a road of the dying into a concentration camp of the dead.
Overture / Prologue: Fox and Geese / Chapter 1: Freedom - The Immortals
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000
-In this episode: Wherein miracles are implied -- a man can run no further -- and the condemned find freedom at the end of the line.