Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

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At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives?each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now.? In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people?s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been.? With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now. From the Trade Paperback edition. Sum -- Egalitaire -- Circle of friends -- Descent of species -- Giantess -- Mary -- The cast -- Metamorphosis -- Missing -- Spirals -- Scales -- Adhesion -- Angst -- Oz -- Great expectations -- Mirrors -- Perpetuity -- The unnatural -- Distance -- Reins -- Microbe -- Absence -- Will-o'-the-wisp -- Incentive -- Death switch -- Encore -- Prism -- Ineffable -- Pantheon -- Impulse -- Quantum -- Conservation -- Narcissus -- Seed -- Graveyard of the gods -- Apostasy -- Blueprints -- Subjenctive -- Search -- Reversal.