false 4948826 7 <b>A dazzling work of fiction from a scientist who has shaped his considerable knowledge into equally considerable art: brief vignettes that present a stunning array of possible worlds awaiting us after our earthly lives have ended.<br></b><br>In your afterlife you may find that God is a married couple separated and reunited, or that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence, or that your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures that built us to figure out what they could not. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember, or provides the content of the dreams of the living, or that humans have brought war to the afterlife with them. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit card records; in some you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been. David Eagleman proposes many versions of our purpose here: we are mobile robots for cosmic mapmakers, we are reunions for scattered atoms, we are experimental subjects for gods trying to understand what keeps couples together.<br><br>In these wonderfully imagined tales--at once funny, wistful, and unsettling--Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now.  His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of death, hope, computers, immortality, love, biology, and desire that cuts through human nature at innovative angles, exposing faces never before seen.  5014561 book 10 2 2009 Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives total:265|5:90|4:95|3:55|2:21|1:4| 265 1041 779 129 5 4 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:35:44 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:44:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Apr 13 18:47:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:58:34 -0700 2009
]]> 5 3 false false Mon Nov 10 12:37:07 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 12:37:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Mar 16 10:45:54 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 07:48:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:58:33 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 06:30:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 30 15:59:24 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 16:01:53 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 21:57:11 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 06:38:10 -0800 2009 Einstein's Dreams. This one follows the thought experiment of speculating on the possibilities of what the afterlife is like, and in doing so explores the notion of what our existence really is. The author has presented 40 such possibilities,...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 13:18:26 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 06:43:03 -0700 2009
Sum is a collection of short stories that are visions of the way we could conceive of life after we die. It is a clever way to think about your life from afar. It alternates betwe...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 27 20:37:33 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 01:36:05 -0700 2009 Could you imagine the afterlife that is exactly like your past life but everythi...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sun Jul 19 09:15:53 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 17:48:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 05:19:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 05:24:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 13:14:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 13:16:37 -0700 2009
Big books don't have to be big! I mean, books addressing huge topics don't have to be long. Clocking in at just over 100 pages, David Eagleman's mind-blowing Sum consists of 40 dazzlingly brief visions of what might happen when you shuffle off this m...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 10:59:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 21:18:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:53:53 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 00:59:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:08:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:09:37 -0700 2009
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Is it a Heaven of clouds and harps and angels? A Hell full of fire and brimstone and horrible torture? Do you get to come back again and live a new life, perhaps building on the mistakes of your previous one? Yeah, guess that's all well and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 16:44:33 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 07:05:21 -0700 2009
I first heard about this book when Radiolab explored the After Life in 11+ meditations. Jeffery Tambor's voice was an excellent choice and it resonated through my head during the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 14:01:02 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 14:07:30 -0700 2009
I love the concept. It is 40 little vignettes (2-4 pages, mos...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 22:03:37 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 21:16:45 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 11:41:50 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 13:48:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 22:11:56 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:18:16 -0700 2009 more...]]>