Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

✍ Scribed by Eagleman, David

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives?each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now.? In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people?s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been.? With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now. From the Trade Paperback edition.

✦ Table of Contents

Sum --
Egalitaire --
Circle of friends --
Descent of species --
Giantess --
Mary --
The cast --
Metamorphosis --
Missing --
Spirals --
Scales --
Adhesion --
Angst --
Oz --
Great expectations --
Mirrors --
Perpetuity --
The unnatural --
Distance --
Reins --
Microbe --
Absence --
Will-o'-the-wisp --
Incentive --
Death switch --
Encore --
Prism --
Ineffable --
Pantheon --
Impulse --
Quantum --
Conservation --
Narcissus --
Seed --
Graveyard of the gods --
Apostasy --
Blueprints --
Subjenctive --
Search --
Reversal.

✦ Subjects

FICTION/Visionary & Metaphysical */;Future life;God;Fiction;Electronic books;Future life -- Fiction;God -- Fiction