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

Chapter 5: The Powers that Be - 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.

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-In this episode: Wherein sides are taken, the dead become immortal and the author has a final word.

Chapter 40: Mountain Man, Epilogue: Phoenix and Afterword - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein unwelcome visitors arrive late at night.

Chapter 39: Ferrets - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein everyone shares a single, mercilless instant.

Chapter 38: Talons - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein someone casts the first stone and the dead help the living.

Chapter 37: Ghost Train - The Immortals

-In this episode: Wherein the Reverend learns a lesson too late.

Chapter 5: The Powers that Be - The Immortals

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