The Immortals

By: 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.
    Some rights reserved, 2004-2005. Tracy Hickman
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Episodes
  • Overture / Prologue: Fox and Geese / Chapter 1: Freedom - The Immortals

    Overture / Prologue: Fox and Geese / Chapter 1: Freedom - The Immortals
    Mar 1 2007

    -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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    32 mins
  • Chapter 2: Newhouse - The Immortals

    Chapter 2: Newhouse - The Immortals
    Mar 2 2007

    -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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    20 mins
  • Chapter 3: Nurse - The Immortals

    Chapter 3: Nurse - The Immortals
    Mar 3 2007

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

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