Book review: Sum: 40 Tales From the Afterlife, by David Eagleman. By The Newsroom. Published 7th May 2009, 01:00 BST. Canongate, 110pp, £9.99Review by MARY CROCKETT.

In Sum, David Eagleman offers 40 brief alternative scenarios for what happens when you die, beginning with the possibility that “in the afterlife you relive all your experience, but this time ...

Neuroscientist and novelist David Eagleman's "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives" imagines life after death in 40 different versions.

The author, a neuroscientist with literary leanings, has set out a series of possibilities for the afterlife, described in 40 vignettes, each of which presents a different explanation of who God ...

In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuffled into a new order: all the moments that share a quality are grouped together. You spend two months driving ...

Read an excerpt from the first four stories of "Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg.

When David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives dropped on my desk a while back, I thought: Hmmm, a cute little self-help book to which I need give no further consideration. Definitely ...

Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives >>David Eagleman >>Pantheon >>$20 >>128 pp. Something interesting almost always happens when thinkers with a scientific bent write fiction. David Eagleman is a ...

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives David Eagleman, . . Pantheon, $20 (107pp) ISBN 978-0-307-37734-0. ... and in afterlife search out the “ripples left in our wake.” ...

Something much the same illuminates Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives (Penguin), neuroscientist David Eagleman’s brilliant, witty, endlessly inventive collection of micro-tales of various ...