The Immortals

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.

Overture / Prologue: Fox and Geese / Chapter 1: Freedom - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein miracles are implied -- a man can run no further -- and the condemned find freedom at the end of the line.

03-01
31:41

Chapter 2: Newhouse - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael Barris is carried over a road of the dying into a concentration camp of the dead.

03-02
20:02

Chapter 3: Nurse - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Nurse Codgeburry uncovers Michael's apparent secret.

03-03
19:29

Chapter 4: The Reverend and the Bulldog - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael is confronted by the Governor of the camp -- and the need to choose sides.

03-04
32:30

Chapter 5: The Powers that Be - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein the true nature of the camps is revealed and we learn what it means to be 'pre-deceased.'

03-05
34:30

Chapter 6: Down the Abyss - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael learns the terrible truth of why only the dead walk alone.

03-06
17:20

Chapter 7 - Nobody Lives Here - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael meets Sid, the barracks supervisor and learns the upside-down language of the camp.

03-07
18:08

Chapter 8 - Dawning - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael is awakened from one nightmare to deal with someone lost in a dream.

03-08
15:43

Chapter 9 - Virgil - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein a cowboy from a forgotten town decides to put it back on the map.

03-09
22:20

Chapter 10 - Heigh-ho - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael considers the meaning of work among the pre-dead.

03-10
21:39

Chapter 11: Recreation. - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael discovers that the best morale officer is a dead morale officer.

03-11
27:33

Chapter 12: The Twilight Man - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein one man stands above two worlds and another man falls between them.

03-12
31:35

Chapter 13: Revelers - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein the puppet in a show trial finds that death is the lenient sentence.

03-13
19:46

Chapter 14: Joyride - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Virgil and the boys follow a rabbit into hell.

03-14
20:38

Chapter 15 - Thunder in My Soul - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein a cowboy has a ring-side seat a little too close to a holocaust.

03-15
21:16

Chapter 16: Son - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Michael reflects on his failures and learns to be careful about his wishes.

03-16
21:54

Chapter 17: 'Tis of Thee - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein the Captain learns the truth about ERIS and VCIDS.

03-17
24:07

Chapter 18: New in Town - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein Virgil wakes up in more ways than one.

03-18
23:45

Chapter 19: Sunshine - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein the horrors of the camp are shut out of the small world within Amanda.

03-19
19:18

Chapter 20: The Monkey Chased the Weasel - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein a quiet woman finds a reason to kill and Michael discovers the awful truth about Emily.

03-20
19:08

Julie homewood

starts off very slow but hang in there , warms up well , interesting story, male narrator very good, has got a great range of voices makes the story more interesting and enjoyable . I went from thinking I would give up on it, to binge listening.

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