Sum
by David Eagleman
Forty very short fictions about possible afterlives: one where you relive your life with events grouped (thirty years asleep, five months on the toilet), one where you are remembered until your name is last spoken, one where God is the size of a microbe. Each is a thought experiment about what matters. It takes an hour and stays for years.
Read it if…
you want a small book that makes you think about how you spend a life.
Skip it if…
you want non-fiction; it is fables.
Three things you will actually use
- Grouped, a life looks different.
- You end when you are forgotten; act accordingly.
- Every afterlife is a comment on this life.
Do this first
Read 'Sum' (the first story) and total up one category of your own hours.
Our verdict
Forty afterlives, one hour.
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