Of the 40 tales here, the longest only runs to three pages. You'd think you could get through them in an evening.

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

Sum 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.

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

When author David Eagleman thinks about the afterlife, he sees endless possibilities. In his book, Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives, he imagines a variety of scenarios, including a heaven run ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Books ’Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives’ by David Eagleman Neuroscientist David Eagleman’s brilliant, witty, endlessly inventive collection of micro-tales of various post-life existences.