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Reading The Book of Joseph | 159www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 145–171 text-immanent author has to be deduced from the caption below a picture of Joseph Seed on page three – “Joseph Seed, Project at Eden’s Gate Guide / Hope County, Montana USA” – and the name below the prologue of the book on page five. There is no doubt, however, that this limited book was created, published, and distributed by Ubisoft in the context of the promotion of Far Cry 5. Because of the rarity of this collector’s item, physical copies of the book are very hard to come by. Fortunately, some of the lucky owners have provided photos of the book through the Internet.16 In terms of genre, the book is a mixture of at least four:17 • it contains fourteen “sermons” in which Joseph tells his followers how to obey him, thirteen given a Roman numeral, and one the word ‘epilogue’. 16 See, for example, www.wattpad.com/story/179523951-the-book-of-joseph-far-cry-5 and https://octo-chan.tumblr.com/post/172753930318/this-is-the-first-chapter-in-the-book-of- joseph-a. 17 www.wattpad.com/story/179523951-the-book-of-joseph-far-cry-5. Fig. 13: A drawing from The Book of Joseph depicting the destruction of San Francisco. Courtesy of Bryanna Gillen.16