Conceptual flips turned into stories about other possible after lives. Not a perfect fiction but exciting enough when discovering a new potential truth.

I loves the type of book and language. ( )

'Sum Tales From the Afterlife' is a compendium of imagined, posthumous existences, skilfully written and impressively powerful seeing as most barely stretch to three pages in total. The stories are strong from the outset, the opener a clever twist on the organisation of the events of life - an afterlife consisting of all the events of your life relived but in a new order, where all the events that share a quality grouped together.

'You spend two months driving the street in front of your house, seven months having sex. You sleep for thirty years without opening your eyes.'

These stories are poignant comments on facets of life that we perhaps take for granted or see too banally, Eagleman is very astute and inventive and he constantly delivers satisfying twists or sentences that hit you with a pithy revelation or reminder. It is a strong short story collection which encourages reflection on what really could be waiting for us (if anything) in a life after this. ( )

This felt very much like Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams", except that this book's theme is death while Lightman's theme is time. Very good read, some of the stories I will need more time to mull over, while others pop into my head throughout the day and make me smile. ( )

Trippy as hell. Loved it. ( )

Forty meditations on a question which will never have a definitive answer: what happens to us after we die?

A lot of the stories seemed throwaway-ish, but there are also those which can be a starting point for further contemplation. Nothing revolutionary but still neat. Some of the stories I liked: Metamorphosis, Mary, Circle of Friends, Mirrors, Subjunctive ( )