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.

'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 ...

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

Sum: Forty Tales from Afterlives By David Eagleman Cover by Angus Hyland/Pentagram Canongate, 2009 Eagleman’s series of tales stakes out territory somewhere between Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis ...

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 ...

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.

It helps make life – a long process of dying – bearable. Differences between time and space, in Mr. Eagleman's tales, also shape the way we understand the mortality of others.

Author David Eagleman sketches out 40 scenarios imagining possible afterlives in his “disarming, splendid little book.” ...

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 accessible human terms. What happens ...

Sum is a clever book, but not nearly enough. 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 ...