First published 2008
In the afterlife, you may find God is a microbe unaware of your existence. Or you're split into all your different ages. Or forced to live with annoying versions of yourself. In these startlingly imaginative tales, Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions about the hereafter, offering a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: alternate-universe, unconventional-narrative
110 pages · Hardcover · Pantheon