Prisoners of Gravity

Immortality (4x21)

Air date: Mar 11, 1993

The pros and cons of living forever are examined this week, with Anne Rice, author of the best-selling Vampire Chronicles (discussing her latest, The Tale of the Body Thief), and horror writer Clive Barker (The Thief of Always). Other guests include science fiction writers Larry Niven (Ringworld), Joan D. Vinge (The Snow Queen), Spider Robinson (Time Pressure), Joe Haldeman (Buying Time), Ian MacDonald (The Broken Land), Vernor Vinge (Marooned in Realtime), Brian Stableford ("The Magic Bullet"), and Gregory Benford ("Doing Lennon"). With comic book creators Neil Gaiman (writer, The Sandman), Len Wein (creator/writer, Swamp Thing) and Peter David (writer, The Incredible Hulk).