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David Eagleman
neuroscientist and author
Sum
- Pages
- 128
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- English
Synopsis
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages, in some you are recreated based on your credit card records, and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been. 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 hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.
Genres
Characters
The DeceasedProtagonist
GodSupporting
Frequently asked questions
Is this book a novel or a collection of stories?
This work is a short story cycle that functions as a collection of thought experiments rather than a traditional narrative novel. The forty vignettes are mutually exclusive, meaning each presents a different, contradictory version of the afterlife.
Did the author write more stories than are included in the book?
The author wrote over seventy stories during a seven-year period, selecting only the forty that created the most effective combination for the final collection.
Are there any adaptations of this book?
A short film adaptation of the title story exists, created by filmmaker Temujin Doran in collaboration with the author.