Sum Study Guide
Inside Sum
Investigate Sum's major themes and get ideas for talking and writing about the book:
Learn more about the historic characters, writers, and works of literature that appear in Sum:
See the works that inspired Sum, or were inspired by it:
Get a quick run-down of Sum's forty tales:
Build on what you've learned in Sum:
Beyond Sum
Find out about the diverse experiments, philosophies, and interests of Sum author and neuroscientist David Eagleman:
- Visit Eagleman's lab
- Visit Eagleman's website
- Read Eagleman's profile in The New Yorker
- See Eagleman talk about "The Brain and the Law"
- See Eagleman's real-life brain experiments
- Hear Eagleman on NPR
- Learn about The Long Now Foundation
Tangential materials
Read some wild ideas about the afterlife, human and otherwise: