The Immortals (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: James E. Gunn
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century to the mid-twenty-second century
- Setting: Kansas City; Lawrence, Kansas; and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Immortality, Future, Midwest, Medicine, Kansas, Blood
- Locales: New York, NY, Kansas City, KS
The Plot
The Immortals served as the basis for the television series The Immortal. The color series included a seventy-five-minute pilot (1969) and fifteen fifty- minute episodes that aired in 1970 and 1971. James Gunn novelized the series in The Immortal (1970).
Marshall Cartwright sells a pint of blood to a hospital. Later, Dr. Russell Pearce transfuses the blood into the veins of his dying patient, Leroy Weaver, a seventy-year-old millionaire. With its rejuvenating gamma globulin, the blood gives Weaver the health of a vital...
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