The Immortals is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer Tracy Hickman, originally published in hardcover by Roc.

The novel describes a future America in which a virus similar to 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] When a cure for AIDS turns out to be more virulent than the disease, the U.S. establishes quarantine camps in the desert southwest.

Barris's son escapes the camp before the cycle of immolation, carrying the evidence he needs to expose the governmental mis-information campaign.