Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.

In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.

• | Author: David Eagleman
• | Publisher: Canongate Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2009
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781847674272
• | ISBN-10: 1847674275