# Books about immortals wandering the earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279 "2016-10-11T20:27:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/1 "2016-10-11T20:27:49Z")
More or less in disguise. American Gods, Iron Druid, etc. Got more? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/2 "2016-10-11T20:35:39Z")
_The Homeward Bounders_. _Percy Jackson_ YA, but **good** YA. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/3 "2016-10-11T20:37:47Z")
You’d never guess what it’s about by the title, but you just described the new, and mediocre, novel [The Immortals](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25746707-the-immortals). ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/4 "2016-10-11T20:40:21Z")
Are you only counting deities, or are other essentially-immortal beings qualifying? There’s the ginormous vampire genre. Then there’s Octavia Butler’s fanfreakintastic [Wild Seed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Seed_(novel)), my favorite work by an excellent author. If reincarnation works, there’s [The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August](https://www.amazon.com/First-Fifteen-Lives-Harry-August/dp/0316399620), a very fun sort-of-time-travel book with characters who are very nearly immortal. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/5 "2016-10-11T20:59:03Z")
“This Immortal” by Zelazny Various people in the Sandman graphic novels. The Lazarus Long book(s?) by Heinlein. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/6 "2016-10-11T21:03:09Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Are you only counting deities, or are other essentially-immortal beings qualifying? There’s the ginormous vampire genre. Then there’s Octavia Butler’s fanfreakintastic [Wild Seed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Seed_(novel)), my favorite work by an excellent author. If reincarnation works, there’s [The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August](https://www.amazon.com/First-Fifteen-Lives-Harry-August/dp/0316399620), a very fun sort-of-time-travel book with characters who are very nearly immortal. No, not vampires\* but the first few books of the Casca series, by Sadler, were fun and would count. - besides, you can kill a vampire. I should know, my Great grandfather did. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/7 "2016-10-11T21:03:11Z")
Screw wandering, I only like books about immortals that are heavily invested in manufacturing and agriculture. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/8 "2016-10-11T21:04:26Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > _The Homeward Bounders_. _Percy Jackson_ > > YA, but **good** YA. Added the first, I have read the Percy Jackson series. Yes, they were quite good. The spin off, the Egypt series was very meh. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/9 "2016-10-11T21:10:40Z")
There were all the \*\*Dancers At The End Of Time \*\*stories by **Michael Moorcock.** TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/10 "2016-10-11T21:17:43Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > There were all the \*\*Dancers At The End Of Time \*\*stories by **Michael Moorcock.** Yes, I read that series long ago. I was thinking more of named Immortals, those from Earths mythology . ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/11 "2016-10-11T21:26:42Z")
If you’re willing to accept manga there is “Ajin: Demi-human” which is also an anime. > **[Ajin: Demi-Human](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajin:_Demi-Human)** > > Ajin: Demi-Human (Japanese: 亜人, Hepburn: Ajin) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Good! Afternoon from July 2012 to February 2021 and was collected into seventeen volumes. In North America, it has been licensed for English release by Vertical. > It was adapted into a 3D anime film trilogy by Polygon Pictures between November 2015 and September 2016. An anime television series adaptation, also by Polygon Pictu... ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/12 "2016-10-11T21:46:03Z")
- Gulliver’s Travels\* ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/13 "2016-10-11T21:54:13Z")
_Changer_ by Jane Lindskold and its sequel \*Changer’s Daughter. \*The main protagonist is so old that he was one of the first living things to leave the ocean. And both novels revolve around a society of immortals, many of which are the basis for all sorts of myths; Arthur Pendragon is a significant character for example. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/14 "2016-10-11T21:54:39Z")
The “Watch” series by Sergei Lukyanenko. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/15 "2016-10-11T21:57:54Z")
_The Golem and the Jinni_ by Helene Wecker ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/16 "2016-10-11T22:04:40Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > _The Golem and the Jinni_ by Helene Wecker added to list. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/17 "2016-10-11T22:25:55Z")
From the SF classic shelf. > **[The Immortals: Gunn, James: 9780671534868: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Immortals-James-Gunn/dp/0671534866)** > > The Immortals \[Gunn, James\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. The Immortals And the TV movie based on the first segment of said book. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXFkwwO49c) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/18 "2016-10-11T22:42:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Finagle** : > > “This Immortal” by Zelazny Heck, darned near anything by Zelazny. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/19 "2016-10-12T02:55:27Z")
_Camouflage_ by Joe Haldeman, about two shape-shifting aliens wandering through human society for eons, is excellent. A number of vampire books touch on questions of immortality and disguise. George R.R. Martin’s _Fevre Dream_, about vampires along the antebellum Mississippi River, is one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279/20 "2016-10-12T04:30:00Z")
**The Immortal** series by Gene Doucette. Fun series about an oversexed drunkard who’s been around since before the spoken word. He goes by Adam, but his original name was Urr. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-about-immortals-wandering-the-earth/768279.md?page=2)