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.

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

'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 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 ...

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 ...

Tales From The Afterlife. By Reviewed by Jason Blake. June 8, 2009 — 10.00am. ... IN HIS book Sum, the American author and neuroscientist David Eagleman posits 40 speculative scenarios for the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IN HIS book Sum , the American author and neuroscientist David Eagleman posits 40 speculative scenarios for the sweet hereafter ...