Hello, my little time capsules! In today’s round-up of recent sci-fi and fantasy links, I have updates to share about the adaptation of Alix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting, the new novel from Paul Tremblay, and the first trailer for the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.
My SFF reads for this week are The Enigmas by Emilia Hart and Witch Dance by Isabel Ibañez. Also, check out the cover reveals for Downright Scoundrels Needed by Sarah Gailey and Love and Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander.
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow is Being Adapted!
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow, recent winner of the Locus Award for best fantasy novel (and one of the best books of 2025), is in the works as a series for Netflix! It’s a time-loop novel about the legendary female knight, Sir Una Everlasting, who helped found the country of Dominion, and a scholar who falls in love with her centuries later.
Swords and Spaceships
Sign up to Swords and Spaceships to receive news and recommendations from the world of science fiction and fantasy.
According to the Variety article, “Should The Everlasting be ordered to series, it would join Netflix’s slate of book adaptations that also includes The Queen’s Gambit, Bridgerton and Leave the World Behind.”
Read an Excerpt from Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay!
New to shelves this week is the sci-fi thriller Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay, a genre-bending, Philip K. Dick-meets-Weekend at Bernie’s story about a near-future full of tech, video games, AI, and nightmares.
If you haven’t already picked up the book, you can read a small excerpt below and the entire excerpt at PEOPLE! Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay was released June 30, 2026 from William Morrow.
Okay, the next-to-last thing in the world she wants to do is have another pithy chat with Mogul Mom about what and how Julia is doing going on 13 months after graduating from a small, expensive, local (Janice’s word, mustarded with disdain) college with an impractical (Janice’s word) degree in communications and film studies.
Julia video calls. She wants Janice to see how tired and annoyed she is.
Janice answers. She is a white woman of Mediterranean complexion in her early fifties. She has her dark-but-graying hair tied in a ponytail. Large blue light–blocking glasses weigh on the bridge of her slender nose. She wears expensive workout gear and is sitting at her expansive desk within her even-more-expansive office. The large window behind her twinkles with San Francisco’s glow. The office lights are dimmed to sunset. Julia knows the office has a sunset setting because Janice showed her all the settings. “Desert Sky” was the brightest.
“There’s my talented daughter calling from the lizard lounge,” Janice says. Janice’s use of “talented” instead of other adjectives equates to “unambitious” or “unfocused” or anything else with “un-” loading the front. She wouldn’t have minded being called diligent, but in Janice’s mind, no one works harder or longer than Janice, and her calculus doesn’t equate Julia’s 60-plus hours a week on two low-paying jobs as truly hard work.
Julia says, “I’d rather be in the lounge than in the office on Sunday night.”
“Believe me, I’d rather be home. But…” She shrugs, looks around the office, and doesn’t finish the thought.
Julia finishes for her. “Unfettered capitalism waits for no woman?”
“Something like that.”
“Anyone else there?”
“Just security and me.” She smiles. It’s sad and honest.
And To Close…
Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun has its first trailer! It stars Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Natasha Lyonne, and Simon Baker, and hits theaters October 23, 2026.
Okay, star bits, now take the knowledge you have learned here today and use it for good, not evil. If you want to know more about books, I talk about books pretty much nonstop (when I’m not reading them), and you can hear me say lots of adjectives about them on the BR podcast All the Books! and on Instagram.
If a SFF fan forwarded this newsletter to you or you read it on bookriot.com and you’d like to get it right in your inbox, you can sign up here.
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
