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Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Pantheon
February 2009
On Sale: February 10, 2009
128 pages
ISBN: 0307377342
EAN: 9780307377340
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SUM is a dazzling 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. These wonderfully imagined tale–at once funny, wistful, and
unsettling–are rooted in science and romance and awe at our
mysterious existence: a mixture of death, hope, computers,
immortality, love, biology, and desire that exposes radiant
new facets of our humanity.
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