Sum

“Witty, bright, sharp and unexpected… as surprising a book as I’ve read for years. Every story is a new Heaven.” – Brian Eno

“Sum is terrific. The inventiveness, the clarity and wit of the prose, the calm air of moral understanding that pervades the whole thing, add up to something completely original.” – Philip Pullman

“You will not read a more dazzling book this year than David Eagleman’s Sum.” – Stephen Fry

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.

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About this Enhanced Edition

Available worldwide except the USA and Canada, the highly acclaimed work by neuroscientist David Eagleman is now tailor-made for the iPhone. It includes exclusive video interviews with the author, the full ebook, and the unabridged audiobook synchronised to the text, with a stellar cast of readers: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

About the author

David Eagleman grew up in New Mexico. As an undergraduate he majored in British and American Literature at Rice University before earning his PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently runs a neuroscience research lab where he studies time perception, synesthesia, and how neuroscience will influence the legal system. At night he writes fiction. Visit his website for further information.

The application has been developed in association with Canongate Books.