Switched – A novel with a new twist.
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When we look at a butterfly we don’t see the same colours on its wings that other butterflies see. This is because we and the butterfly see different ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio and many other waves use different parts of the same mostly invisible electro-magnetic spectrum and though we can’t detect them using our own senses, we know they are all around us because we can see and hear the results they produce when we use devices such as radios and televisions. There is much we don’t know and which our god given senses cannot detect but by using clever mathematics and special equipment we are discovering more every day. For example, scientists now believe there are multiple dimensions. Some even believe there is an infinity of dimensions with each one in ignorance of what goes on in the others. Switched is the story of what happens when two men, living in different dimensions, accidentally swap bodies and lives.
There are many well-documented instances of peoples’ personalities suddenly changing completely, often following some major incident. Have they, like Zak and Zachary, been kicked into a different dimension, perhaps in their cases one that has only diverged slightly from their home dimension so they don’t even realize what has happened to them? Of course, sometimes, as happens to Zak and Zachary, they might be dumped into a dimension that has diverged greatly from their home one. Then what do they do? What would you do?
After being knocked out by a severe electric shock, Zachary Storie discovers that while his mind and memories are unaffected by the shock, his body is no longer the one he knew moments earlier. But much worse is to follow.
Zak suffers an almost identical accident but he wakes up to a much better new body than before as well as to much nicer new surroundings. Life and death struggles follow as both men try to adjust to what prove to be new very dangerous lives and environments while never revealing what has happened to them. In any case, who would believe them? Would you?
We follow the highly eventful lives of both Zak and Zachary as they try to get to grips with their new circumstances and the new people in their lives – not all of whom wish them well.