Sum
Tales from the Afterlives
Published on 23. April 2009
128 pages
978-1-84767-579-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.
Reviews / Votes
An absolute pearl of a book -- Stephen Fry Elegant, surreal and philosophically questioning, each story from neuroscientist Eagleman offers an inventive, thought-provoking blend of science and romance * * Metro * * Sum is terrific. The inventiveness, the clarity and wit of the prose, the calm air of moral understanding that pervades the whole thing, add up to something completly original. -- Philip Pullman This stunningly original book is little more than 100 pages long. You can get through it in an hour, but you'd be mad to hurry, and you will certainly want to return to it many times . . . Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius. It seems exquisitely adapted to fill the contemporary longing for a kind of secular holy book. -- Geoff Dyer * * Observer * * Anything that tells us, convincingly, that this really may be the best of all possible worlds has something big going for it. * * Guardian * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-579-8 (9781847675798)
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04/2010
Canongate Books
€31.13
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Person
David Eagleman, PhD, is a neuroscientist and internationally bestselling author. He teaches at Stanford University, is the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated television series The Brain, and is the CEO of Neosensory, a company that builds the next generation of neuroscience hardware. The author of seven other books, he lives in Silicon Valley in California.
@davideagleman | eagleman.com
@davideagleman | eagleman.com
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- 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
- Subjunctive
- Search
- Reversal
- Copyright
