SwiΨtcH

Or, How Liam Mathers Nearly Lost His Mind

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Science Fiction, Coming of Age, Friendship, Young Adult, and Novels

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Oct 16, 2026

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272 pages

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SwiΨtcH

Or, How Liam Mathers Nearly Lost His Mind

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Blurb

When saving your friend means a leap of reality.

Liam Mathers is like any other middle-school soccer-obsessed kid until one bizarre autumn Saturday morning—he isn’t. On that morning, he experiences the first in a series of hallucinations that take him on a mind-bending tour of a parallel reality that seems so tangible, he is convinced it really exists.

Does it? His psychiatrist says no, but not with conviction. His best friend, Jing, panicked by Liam’s behavior, doesn’t care what the cause of his hallucinations is; she just wants them to stop before she succumbs to her own inner demons. The situation takes a dramatic turn when Jing’s father’s philosopher friend reveals a startling interpretation of Liam’s behavior, one that triggers a maelstrom of disbelief, suspicion, and speculation among Liam’s parents, friends, and doctors.

Jing’s physicist father finds himself unexpectedly pulled into the eye of the storm as everyone turns to him for answers. Can he make sense of what is happening to Liam? Is his philosopher friend’s interpretation plausible? Should he let psychology, philosophy, physics, or gut instinct guide him? Shockingly, his own daughter’s life may depend on the answer.

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Genres

Science Fiction, Coming of Age, Friendship, Young Adult, and Novels

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None

Type of Ending

AI Usage^Beta

Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Oct 16, 2026

Page Length

272 pages

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Author

Frederic (Fritz) Martin was born in Iowa, grew up in Western New York, and lived and worked in Maine, Idaho, and California, finally settling in Vermont where he now lives and writes. Along the way, he jack-hammered concrete, worked as a mechanic, drove a taxi, delivered papers, rowed dories as a guide on the great western rivers, hitch-hiked everywhere, read a lot, and somehow picked up a college degree in Physics. He married and raised a son and a daughter with his wife Betsy. His very first published work, a short story "Maybe Lake Carmi," won the Vermont Writer's Prize in 2018. He has since published several short stories and novels.