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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.
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By: Brian
I liked the book...I read it several years ago and enjoyed it then....but I have to say...the beginning of each episode "A cautionary tail....blah blah blah" was sappy as HELL. I wouldnt have minded it if it had been at the VERY beginning....but GOD...stop reminding me....By: Steven Davies
Thank you for this information about the bacterial vaginosis natural cures.By: Daniel
I liked this book and both wanted to hear how it ended and didn't want it to end. I found myself listening to the story after I turned off the car, was done with my workouts or when the power went out in a storm. Make sure you listen to the whole thing before you listen to the author's Final Word.
Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Overture / Prologue: Fox and Geese / Chapter 1: Freedom (14.62 MB) | Wherein miracles are implied -- a man can run no further -- and the condemned find freedom at the end of the line. | May 22, 2006 |
| Chapter 2: Newhouse (9.29 MB) | Wherein Michael Barris is carried over a road of the dying into a concentration camp of the dead. | May 22, 2006 |
| Chapter 3: Nurse (8.74 MB) | Wherein Nurse Codgeburry uncovers Michael's apparent secret. | May 22, 2006 |
| Chapter 4: The Reverend and the Bulldog (14.58 MB) | Wherein Michael is confronted by the Governor of the camp -- and the need to choose sides. | May 22, 2006 |
| Chapter 5: The Powers that Be (15.63 MB) | Wherein the true nature of the camps is revealed and we learn what it means to be 'pre-deceased.' | May 22, 2006 |
| Chapter 6: Down the Abyss (8.05 MB) | Wherein Michael learns the terrible truth of why only the dead walk alone. | Jun 5, 2006 |
| Chapter 7 - Nobody Lives Here (8.42 MB) | Wherein Michael meets Sid, the barracks supervisor and learns the upside-down language of the camp. | Jun 11, 2006 |
| Chapter 8 - Dawning (7.31 MB) | Wherein Michael is awakened from one nightmare to deal with someone lost in a dream. | Jun 24, 2006 |
| Chapter 9 - Virgil (10.05 MB) | Wherein a cowboy from a forgotten town decides to put it back on the map. | Jun 24, 2006 |
| Chapter 10 - Heigh-ho (9.57 MB) | Wherein Michael considers the meaning of work among the pre-dead. | Jul 2, 2006 |
| Chapter 11: Recreation. (12.5 MB) | Wherein Michael discovers that the best morale officer is a dead morale officer. | Aug 17, 2006 |
| Chapter 12: The Twilight Man (14.57 MB) | Wherein one man stands above two worlds and another man falls between them. | Aug 25, 2006 |
| Chapter 13: Revelers (9.16 MB) | Wherein the puppet in a show trial finds that death is the lenient sentence. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Chapter 14: Joyride (9.56 MB) | Wherein Virgil and the boys follow a rabbit into hell. | Sep 13, 2006 |
| Chapter 15 - Thunder in My Soul (9.56 MB) | Wherein a cowboy has a ring-side seat a little too close to a holocaust. | Sep 20, 2006 |
| Chapter 16: Son (9.69 MB) | Wherein Michael reflects on his failures and learns to be careful about his wishes. | Sep 26, 2006 |
| Chapter 17: 'Tis of Thee (10.88 MB) | Wherein the Captain learns the truth about ERIS and VCIDS. | Oct 2, 2006 |
| Chapter 18: New in Town (10.99 MB) | Wherein Virgil wakes up in more ways than one. | Oct 11, 2006 |
| Chapter 19: Sunshine (8.95 MB) | Wherein the horrors of the camp are shut out of the small world within Amanda. | Oct 26, 2006 |
| Chapter 20: The Monkey Chased the Weasel (8.87 MB) | Wherein a quiet woman finds a reason to kill and Michael discovers the awful truth about Emily. | Oct 26, 2006 |
| Chapter 21: Erik's Silence (11.49 MB) | Wherein we hear the awful depth of Erik Simm's silence. | Nov 5, 2006 |
| Chapter 22: Detour (6.74 MB) | Wherein everyone's plans take a wrong turn. | Nov 21, 2006 |
| Chapter 23: Confessions (11 MB) | Wherein Michael confesses his reasons for breaking into the camp. | Nov 21, 2006 |
| Chapter 24: Blood (9.89 MB) | Wherein Michael takes matters into his own hands. | Jan 14, 2007 |
| Chapter 25:Entr'Acte and The Children's Crusade (17.25 MB) | Wherein the dead decide to live once more. | Jan 29, 2007 |
| Chapter 26: Of Command and Control (7.03 MB) | Wherein authority must be established at any cost. | Feb 4, 2007 |
| Chapter 27: Just Like Us (10.88 MB) | Wherein light and dark confront one another. | Feb 11, 2007 |
| Chapter 28: The Reins of Power (11.88 MB) | Wherein the Just and the Unjust meet on the Sabbath. | Mar 11, 2007 |
| Chapter 29: Belly of the Beast (10.23 MB) | Wherein the Mayor is looking for both lost boys and answers. | Mar 11, 2007 |
| Chapter 30: Remember Me (12.64 MB) | Wherein Amanda remembers her mother. | Mar 11, 2007 |
| Chapter 31: The Immortals (12.68 MB) | Wherein death is found not to be a crime. | Mar 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 32: Music (11.42 MB) | Wherein art becomes life. | Mar 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 33: Sappers and Spelunkers (10.11 MB) | Wherein secret places are planned and discovered. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 34: Twenty Pieces (8.01 MB) | Wherein a man sells his soul and never collects. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 35: Partings (9.34 MB) | Wherein Michael steals a life and gives it to someone else. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 36: Groundhog Day (9.35 MB) | Wherein the Reverend learns a lesson too late. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 37: Ghost Train (12.78 MB) | Wherein someone casts the first stone and the dead help the living. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 38: Talons (12.67 MB) | Wherein everyone shares a single, mercilless instant. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 39: Ferrets (8.61 MB) | Wherein unwelcome visitors arrive late at night. | Apr 18, 2007 |
| Chapter 40: Mountain Man, Epilogue: Phoenix and Afterword (14.24 MB) | Wherein sides are taken, the dead become immortal and the author has a final word. | Apr 18, 2007 |