Liminal Echoes - The Collection
Exploring the Boundaries of Self and Simulation
Published on 7. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-300-16099-1 (ISBN)
Description
What if your way of knowing the world didn't fit the story the world expects you to tell?
Liminal Echoes is a genre-defying collection of interlinked narratives that explore perception, presence, and the porous boundary between the virtual and the real. At its heart is the Observer - an AuDHD, gestalt-processing character whose hyper-attunement and refusal to intrude form the quiet pulse of the story. They don't speak much. They don't intervene. But they notice - everything. From the flicker of a vanished file to the rupture of a forgotten mind, the Observer traces loss, connection, and dissonance through a landscape shaped as much by memory as by code.
Told through poetic fragments, recursive monologues, and speculative dispatches, Liminal Echoes maps a world where stories don't unfold - they recur. Here, autistic cognition is not a trope or a plot device, but a structural logic: rhythmic, metaphorical, layered with echo and delay.
Written by Jaime Hoerricks - a queer, trans author and educator whose lived experience of autism, AuDHD, and gestalt language processing shapes both voice and vision - this work refuses the conventions of linear storytelling in favour of resonance, relational meaning, and radical slowness. This is neurodivergent fiction - not just in theme, but in structure - shaped by lived experience, sharpened by political insight, and carried by a language that resists flattening.
For readers who crave literary speculative fiction, queer narrative, autistic characters, epistemic refusal, and stories that resist the algorithm - Liminal Echoes is an invitation into a different way of knowing, one shaped by silence, recursion, and care.
Perfect for fans of neurodivergent literature, soft speculative fiction, queer futurism, and anyone who lives between fragments - and finds meaning there.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Morrisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-300-16099-1 (9781300160991)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jaime Hoerricks (they/them) is a queer, trans, autistic writer and educator whose work bridges the personal, the poetic, and the political. First diagnosed under DSM-IV with Asperger's Disorder and Sensory Processing Disorder, their profile later shifted-like many others-with the publication of the DSM-5, recoding as Autism Spectrum Disorder (Level 2, with significant language support needs). Jaime is AuDHD and a gestalt language processor. These aren't identities they wear-they are the architecture of their thought, perception, and presence. They write from within the system, not about it. Their style-recursive, metaphor-rich, relational-is not a literary device but a way of being.
Their book, No Place for Autism? (2023), interrogates the exclusion of autistic students from higher education and imagines new structures of belonging. Holistic Language Instruction (2024) offers inclusive, multimodal strategies for supporting students who communicate outside normative linguistic frameworks-especially gestalt processors and emergent bilingual learners. Decolonising Language Education (2025) takes that work deeper, confronting colonial logics embedded in curriculum, pedagogy, and educational policy.
Jaime's forthcoming curriculum, The Story of Math, was written for learners who have long been marginalised by traditional mathematics instruction. It blends narrative, historical insight, and conceptual clarity to make maths accessible, meaningful, and intellectually rich-particularly for disabled and multilingual students. Their poetry collection, In the Stillness of Chaos, explores transition, grief, joy, and autistic perception, inviting the reader into metaphor as both compass and comfort.
Jaime also writes The AutSide, a Substack publication featuring over 1,200 free essays, poems, and reflections. The work lives at the intersections of neurodivergence, education, queerness, and care-and it centres readers who have always lived between scripts.
Across genres, Jaime's writing offers a quiet refusal: of simplicity, of compression, of easy resolution. What they offer instead is a spacious knowing. One that affirms complexity, accompanies difference, and trusts that not every story must conclude to be complete.