40 episodes
The Immortals Tracy Hickman
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3.6 • 5 Ratings
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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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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.
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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.
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Chapter 3: Nurse - The Immortals
-In this episode: Wherein Nurse Codgeburry uncovers Michael's apparent secret.
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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.
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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.'
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Chapter 6: Down the Abyss - The Immortals
-In this episode: Wherein Michael learns the terrible truth of why only the dead walk alone.
Customer Reviews
An absolutely stunning read
I am not normally one to be particularly touched when reading a book (or listening to one), but this book had me holding back the tears. It really is a fantastic, fantastic book and I would recommend anybody to read it, regardless of genre taste. It just leaves you with a stone in your throat and a quandary of thought that I have found in very few other books. A must read. And I do not take those words lightly.
Great idea for a story BUT
Great idea for a story but way way to preachy, obvious religious undertones that I found extremely frustrating.
Wish I hadn't stuck it out-
some gems but heavy handed
I appreciate the efforts of every writer and I thank the author for sharing this story. I must say however I found this more of a sermon than a cautionary tale. I perservered until the first (literal) stone was cast then I turned it off in frustration.