The Immortals (Hickman novel)

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The Immortals
ISBN
0-451-45402-2

The Immortals is a 1996

AIDS has panicked the U.S. government into setting up internment camps to contain the sufferers. The AIDS-like disease serves as backdrop and plot device to examine human relationships in circumstances of extreme duress.[1][2]

Plot summary

When a cure for AIDS turns out to be more virulent than the disease, the U.S. establishes quarantine camps in the desert southwest. Michael Barris, a TV producer, masquerades as one of the infected and travels to the camps in search of his son. He finds horrific conditions, and learns that the so-called quarantine camps are death camps where the infected are gathered, purposefully brutalized, and ultimately cremated alive, their ashes bulldozed into the desert sand. Barris's son escapes the camp before the cycle of immolation, carrying the evidence he needs to expose the governmental mis-information campaign.

Adaptations

In 2006,

podcast novel, and made it available as a free download from Podiobooks.com.[3]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ "Tracy Hickman". David Gemmell Legend Award. 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  2. ^ "The Immortals". Mormon Literature Database. Brigham Young University. 2003. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  3. ^ "The Immortals". PodioBooks. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
  4. ^ "Winners". Parsec Awards. Retrieved January 19, 2010.

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