'Afterlives': 40 Stories Of What Follows Death When author David Eagleman thinks about the afterlife, he sees endless possibilities. In his book, Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives, he imagines ...

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 ...

Author David Eagleman sketches out 40 scenarios imagining possible afterlives in his “disarming, ... Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives by David Eagleman. ... Sum is a marvel.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman, Viking Canada, 108 pages, $26; First, I should have twigged to the playful title: It is not just a reference to the aggregation of small ...

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. by David Eagleman. 110pp, Canongate, £9.99. T £9.99 (plus 99p p&p) 0844 871 1515 or Telegraph Books Advertisement More stories. More from ...

In his slyly comic Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives, David Eagleman speculates about the great beyond. His whimsical thought experiments set in the hereafter expose truths of the here and now.

The effect of this space-time distinction is that we are able to recall events without, as well, getting a full, panoramic sense of how much time has since gone by – and, thus, without getting a ...

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

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives David Eagleman, . . Pantheon, $20 (107pp) ISBN 978-0-307-37734-0. A clever little book by a neuroscientist translates lofty concepts of infinity and death into ...

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 ...