I normally wait until an audiobook is released so I can make a post but this one is too good to pass up. Might as well start hyping it up now. 🎉
Roger is going to narrate this audiobook, and I mean, no shit??? No one else is more fitting to narrate anything with the words Red Dead on the title. This book will be available in August of 2024 in paperback, hardcover, and of course, audiobook format.
Overview:
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as recreations of history?
In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more. Weaving the games’ plot and characters into an exploration of American violence between 1870 and 1920, Olsson shows that it was more often disputes over capitalism and race, not just poker games and bank robberies, that fueled the bloodshed of these turbulent years. As such, this era has much to teach us today. From the West to the Deep South to Appalachia, Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that inspired the games, but sometimes lacks context and complexity on the digital screen. Colorful, fast-paced, and dramatic, Red Dead’s History sheds light on dark corners of the American past for gamers and history buffs alike.
Currently, Red Dead's History is available for PRE-ORDER from:
PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK | DAY 4: Favorite time period
↳ The Wild West
“My heaven is filled with good horses, open plains, wild cattle, and a man who loves me. It is always sunrise in my world. And there are no storms. I am the only lightning. I know death now. I’ve seen it. It had no fangs. It smiled at me. And it was beautiful.”
- 1883
The West has Always been Queer! Is available to read for free right now!
All 165 pages!! Readable free in browser or download as a PDF! (It will try to make you register an account; select 'no, I will stay on the free tier' to start your download)
If you, like me, have a lot of Opinions about Queerness in the 1800s, oh man. Ooooh man, this is THE book to read. It's got all the best stuff.
Information about indigenous gender and sexuality. Discussions of the whitewashing of a mostly nonwhite career. Examinations of the way modern (western) queerness is inextricably entwined with settler colonialism.
Want to get a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of the upcoming Red Dead History? It will be signed by author Tore Olsson, and by none other than THE BOAH himself, Roger Clark!
Go to the Iink below and enter for your chance to win this awesome prize!
⚠️ NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY ⚠️
But you are more than welcome to pre-order your copy of the book, if you have not done so already, which is releasing on August 6, 2024. Available in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook formats.