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100 1 $aEagleman, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008035692
245 10 $aSum :$bforty tales from the afterlives /$cDavid Eagleman.
246 30 $aForty tales from the afterlives
246 3 $a40 tales from the afterlives
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $a110 unnumbered pages ;$c20 cm
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505 00 $tSum -- $tEgalitaire -- $tCircle of Friends -- $tDescent of Species -- $tGiantess -- $tMary -- $tThe Cast -- $tMetamorphosis -- $tMissing -- $tSpirals -- $tScales -- $tAdhesion -- $tAngst -- $tOz -- $tGreat Expectations -- $tMirrors -- $tPerpetuity -- $tThe Unnatural -- $tDistance -- $tReins -- $tMicrobe -- $tAbsence -- $tWill-o'-the- Wisp -- $tIncentive -- $tDeath Switch -- $tEncore -- $tPrism -- $tIneffable -- $tPantheon -- $tImpulse -- $tQuantum -- $tConservation -- $tNarcissus -- $tSeed -- $tGraveyard of the Gods -- $tApostasy -- $tBlueprints -- $tSubjunctive -- $tSearch -- $tReversal.
520 1 $a"Sum is an exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered - each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning 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, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different version of the afterlife you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple struggling with discontent, or that the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember, or that the hereafter includes the thousands of previous gods who no longer attract followers. In some afterlives you are split into your different ages; in some you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been; in others you are re-created from your credit card records and Internet history. David Eagleman proposes many versions of our purpose here; we are mobile robots for cosmic mapmakers, we are reunions for a scattered confederacy of atoms, we are experimental subjects for gods trying to understand what makes couples stick together."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFuture life$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103663
650 0 $aGod$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105336
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