David Eagleman

David Eagleman could have stopped proving his prodigious intelligence after graduating with a literature degree from Rice. But, nooo - he then had to go on to get a freaking PhD in neuroscience, and then start his own neuroscience lab. After studying brains all day - get this - he comes home and writes best-selling fiction, such as Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives. Meet the intelligent, entertaining Eagleman tonight at the Houston Public Library, where he'll read from and discuss Sum, a whimsical work of fiction that draws on his neuroscience knowledge to suggest 40 scenarios that await us in the afterlife. One contains a microscopic God that has no idea who you are; in another, you encounter visions of what you could have been. (One doubts Eagleman has any concerns with the latter.)

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Sumhas been embraced by both the religious and New Age communities, not an easy trick. The universal acceptance has prompted reporters to ask Eagleman about his own beliefs: Is he agnostic? Atheist? Spiritual? Eagleman answers by saying he's a "possibilian," and willing to entertain multiple hypotheses. 7 p.m. 500 McKinney. For information, call 832-393-1313 or visit www.houstonlibrary.org. Free
Thu., Aug. 13, 7 p.m., 2009