Pocket Universe: Sponsors Above, Players Below

By Joseph Santiago

You picked up a Node-an ordinary-looking object with an unfair advantage: it turns everyday life into a readable map.
A Pocket Universe is a room you can enter without leaving your life. The world outside stays the same-work, family, love, money, hunger, pride-but the noise stops pretending it's neutral. You start noticing what was always there: who gets rewarded, who gets punished, who benefits when you stay confused, and what it costs to accept the role you're being offered.
That pattern is the Great Game: the invisible trade of attention, status, fear, desire, and control. It doesn't care what you believe. It cares what you do under pressure-and pressure is how most people lose themselves without even noticing.
This book is an anchor-not the kind that drags you under, the kind that keeps you from being carried off. When the room gets loud, it hands you something better than slogans: language that turns on like a light, naming the pattern while it's happening so you can choose your next move on purpose.
You'll cross five Pocket Universes-each one a story, each one a test, each one a mirror with jokes in its teeth:
The Bronze Mercy - Like Clockwork - The Vending Machine at the End of Reality - The Jealousy Banquet - The Breeding Ground
If you've ever walked out of a conversation thinking, Something just happened there-and I can't name it, this Node is for you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF1MGQ79
• ISBN13: 9798242617865
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"