Join the Jamverse Contest: Build a Sci-Fi Universe's World
Join Me in Jamverse
Venkatesh Rao invites fiction writers to contribute to Jamverse, a near-future Earth setting with strange but non-magical rules. A worldbuilding contest runs until July 31. Rao shares two microfictions he wrote as warmups: 'Ziploc Protocol' about smuggling jailbreaking tech, and 'The Thicket' about exurban hinterlands. The universe currently has 15 stories across 4 cycles by 4 authors, plus contributions from others. Early contributors can easily introduce big ideas. Recommended reading includes key stories from each cycle.
Jamverse (named for Fred Pohl’s dictum that the science-fiction writer’s job is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam) is a near-future Earth setting full of strange (but not magical) rules.
- cautiouscat
Off topic but it’s getting crazy how confidently you can point at a websites design and go “An LLM designed this.”
Jamverse kind of just reminds me of a less guided SCP wiki? I’m not sure I fully get it though. Seems interesting though, I’ll have to poke through and read.
- thataccount
It looks like Ethereum is somehow a part of this universe along with AI? I am not sure what the identity is here fully, but I get that writers are wanted. Are they supposed to also be crypto broish?
- empressplay
Half the fun of writing science fiction can be coming up with novel concepts or 'rules', what happens when everything of consequence in the 'Jamverse' has been built out? Will they start a new one?