The Pocket Universe Playbook:

How to Play the Great Game—from Dream to Done

By: Joseph Santiago

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Pocket Universe Playbook

Gate of Aesir · Pocket Universe Saga

Stories you can walk into.

This book is a set of doors—into places, people, and ideas that might not exist yet. Step through, look around, take notes, and—if you like—choose what happens next. Each story stands on its own and hands you something you can carry back to your day: a turn of phrase that opens a room, a small shift that changes the mood, a new way to see the block you live on.

Inside you’ll roam pop-up neighborhoods, corner shops that bend time, meetings that flip from drift to decision, and nights where one sentence tilts the whole scene. The tone? Curious, wry, occasionally feral. The aim? To give you language and little levers you can actually use—tonight, tomorrow morning, next week.

Running underneath is the Great Game—not as a spectacle, but as a simple rule: you’re not the piece that gets pushed; you’re the player who calls the next move. Each page is a chance to practice that.

New to the series? Perfect. Start anywhere. Read a scene on the bus. Try a tiny change at lunch. If it moves something, keep going—and tell me which door you want opened next.