The Immortals: Recent Episodes
Tracy Hickman
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.
-In this episode: Wherein sides are taken, the dead become immortal and the author has a final word.
-In this episode: Wherein a quiet woman finds a reason to kill and Michael discovers the awful truth about Emily.
-In this episode: Wherein the horrors of the camp are shut out of the small world within Amanda.
-In this episode: Wherein Michael reflects on his failures and learns to be careful about his wishes.
-In this episode: Wherein a cowboy has a ring-side seat a little too close to a holocaust.
-In this episode: Wherein the puppet in a show trial finds that death is the lenient sentence.
-In this episode: Wherein one man stands above two worlds and another man falls between them.
-In this episode: Wherein Michael discovers that the best morale officer is a dead morale officer.
-In this episode: Wherein a cowboy from a forgotten town decides to put it back on the map.
-In this episode: Wherein Michael is awakened from one nightmare to deal with someone lost in a dream.
-In this episode: Wherein Michael meets Sid, the barracks supervisor and learns the upside-down language of the camp.
-In this episode: Wherein Michael learns the terrible truth of why only the dead walk alone.
-In this episode: Wherein the true nature of the camps is revealed and we learn what it means to be 'pre-deceased.'
-In this episode: Wherein Michael is confronted by the Governor of the camp -- and the need to choose sides.
-In this episode: Wherein Michael Barris is carried over a road of the dying into a concentration camp of the dead.
-In this episode: Wherein miracles are implied -- a man can run no further -- and the condemned find freedom at the end of the line.