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"Imaginative and inventive."
-- The Wall Street Journal"This little book is teeming, writhing with imagination."
-- Los Angeles Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.Book Description
Sum is a stunning exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered—each presented as a vignette that offers a lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. The stories in Sum are rooted in romance, science, and awe: a mixture of death, hope, computers, immortality, love, biology, and desire that cuts through human nature at new and exciting angles.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant very short stories,
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This review is from: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife (Hardcover)
These 2-3 page short phi-fi (philosophy-fiction) stories are often laugh-out-loud funny, but quite thought-provoking as well. Not for religious dogmatists as some of these stories poke gentle fun at some pre-conceived notions of gods and heavens, though others are reflections on life in this world. I'm going to read it again tomorrow.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Fun read,
By S. Latendresse (Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Hardcover)
Each of the short (short!) stories follows the same pattern: "what if the afterlife was...." You think the afterlife is all angels and lyre music? Or that you end up in Heaven or Hell? That you will meet God? This books takes forty such ideas about the afterlife and runs with them to their extreme conclusions - imagine an infinity of each afterlife! Not much utopia here...Imaginative and full of twists on popular ideas - a fun book to read.
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Eagleman - The Possibilian,
By sedgewick (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife (Hardcover)
That is how the author was dubbed by the New Yorker in an interview about his life, work and "Sum". Possibilities he does offer in his 40 tales of what afterlife might look like and with astonishing fecundity of mind. Of course it's all a bit tongue-in-cheek, yet each story is carefully crafted from scientific or philosophical insights, and each ending with its own unexpected twist, leaving the reader with something to ponder about.
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