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Reddit mentions of Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
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There's an excellent short story collection by the neuroscientist David Eagleman called Sum: Tales from the Afterlives. Every story has the central motif of a possible afterlife. In one, we wait in Limbo until our name is uttered for the last time. In another, we live in a world populated by all of our possible selves. And so on. Here's an excerpt.
There are also some great stories by Vonnegut that can be found in his collection Welcome To The Monkey House, especially 'Harrison Bergeron' (a great example of Nietzsche's conception of Nihilism) and 'All The King's Horses' (which I see as an unintentional illustration of Baudrillard's philosophy of the hyperreal, but could be taken as a more general comment on the dehumanizing effects of power).
(Props for mentioning Narcissus and Goldmund, by the way. It might be my favourite novel.)
I read it in this book recently, same author? There's a different name there that's for sure.