Catalog
Books, games, and the stuff that goes with them — curated by the Rainbow Crow community and the team behind it. At the top of this page are our main picks this week. Find the full curated catalog below. Scroll down, browse around, find something you like, then come talk about it with us!
This week's picks

11/22/63
BooksStephen King
A time-traveling teacher tries to stop the Kennedy assassination — and learns the past does not want to be changed.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
BooksBecky Chambers
A tea monk and a robot walk into the wilderness. Hopepunk that actually earns the hope.

Abaddon’s Gate
BooksJames S.A. Corey
A massive alien ring opens beyond Uranus. The Expanse, book three.

Acceptance
BooksJeff VanderMeer
The Southern Reach trilogy closes, and Area X’s origins finally start to surface — sideways, as ever.

Annihilation
BooksJeff VanderMeer
Four women enter Area X. Something about the border, and about them, is not what it seems. Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy.

Authority
BooksJeff VanderMeer
The bureaucracy trying to understand Area X turns out to be just as strange as the zone itself. Southern Reach, book two.

Babylon’s Ashes
BooksJames S.A. Corey
The Belt rises in open rebellion. The Expanse, book six.

Caliban’s War
BooksJames S.A. Corey
The protomolecule crisis spreads to Venus, and the crew of the Rocinante gets pulled deeper in. The Expanse, book two.

Cibola Burn
BooksJames S.A. Corey
Humanity’s first colony on a world beyond the ring gate, and the fight over who gets to claim it. The Expanse, book four.

Cities in Dust (Wasteland #1)
Graphic NovelsAntony Johnston
A post-apocalyptic desert world, generations after ’The Big Wet,’ where survival means never trusting the ground beneath you.

Dune
BooksFrank Herbert
Desert planet, spice, prophecy, empire. The science fiction novel most other science fiction novels are still arguing with.
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Dune: Imperium
Board GamesPaul Dennen · Dire Wolf
Deckbuilding meets worker-placement in the world of Dune. Sharp, tense, and endlessly replayable.

Gideon the Ninth
BooksTamsyn Muir
Lesbian necromancers in space, sword-fighting their way through a haunted gothic palace. Exactly as fun as that sounds.

Leviathan Wakes
BooksJames S.A. Corey
A detective, a doomed ice hauler, and a protomolecule that changes everything. Book one of The Expanse.

Nemesis Games
BooksJames S.A. Corey
The Rocinante’s crew splits up right as the solar system’s fragile peace shatters. The Expanse, book five.

Star Trek Roleplaying Game: Player’s Guide
RPGsChristian Moore · Last Unicorn Games
Explore strange new worlds under a d6 system built specifically for Trek-flavored diplomacy and away missions.

Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
RPGsGreg Costikyan · West End Games
The original Star Wars RPG, back when the galaxy far away only had three movies to draw from. A formative piece of tabletop history.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
Graphic NovelsKevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz, Esau & Isaac Escorza
The last surviving Turtle, decades after losing his brothers, wages one final war on the empire that took them.
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Terraforming Mars
Board GamesJacob Fryxelius · FryxGames
Corporations race to make Mars habitable. A modern heavy-game classic.

The Dispossessed
BooksUrsula K. Le Guin
An ambiguous utopia. The anarchist moon Anarres, the capitalist world Urras, and the physicist caught between.

The Fifth Season
BooksN.K. Jemisin
A world of catastrophic, apocalypse-cycle geology, and the people with the power to cause or calm it. Opens the Broken Earth trilogy.

The Foundation Trilogy
BooksIsaac Asimov
The collapse of a galactic empire, predicted centuries in advance by mathematics — and the secret plan to shorten the coming dark age.

The Left Hand of Darkness
BooksUrsula K. Le Guin
An envoy is sent to a world where people have no fixed gender. A foundational work of feminist and queer science fiction.

The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
BooksJeff VanderMeer
A bioengineered bird flees a ruined city in this Borne-universe novella of strange, ecological horror.
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Tiny Epic Galaxies
Board GamesScott Almes · Gamelyn Games
Roll dice and colonize planets in a galaxy-spanning 4X game that fits in a small box and a short session.
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