A magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must stay on a date forever, even if it means destroying the world. Don't you want to help them?
A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2026 AthemMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2026
"Delicious, insane, intoxicating." -Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing
"This Is How You Lose the Time War but on crack." -Jace Molloy
Acrasia is in the ultimate long-distance relationship: with Opus Zhao, a man from another universe. She was a trans girl who was also an intergalactic moth-goddess. He was a trans guy who piloted a giant robotic tiger. They hated each other, then fell in love, then their universes moved apart. Now, years later, he's turned up in her dimension again. What won't she do to keep him there?
CombiningSailor Moon, Sex and the City, and House of Leavesroarsoff the page in the genre-exploding, galaxy-spanning, quick-quipping retro nostalgia futuristic thrill ride of a lifetime. Give in, succumb (you know you want to) to the unstoppable world ofPlastic, Prism, Void.
About the Author :
Violet Allen is a science fiction and fantasy author whose stories have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, A People's Future of the United States, and elsewhere. In her spare time, she likes making music, watching films, and attempting to make the perfect from-scratch pizza.
Review :
"Violet Allen is a generational talent, and Plastic, Prism, Void reinvents the literary love story, bringing together Spenser and Sailor Moon, Goethe and Gundam to hilarious, heartbreaking, and continually delightful effect, weaving a bridge of love across the vast gulfs between our separate worlds. Delicious, insane, intoxicating."
--Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing
"Wild, soulful, hilarious ... think This Is How You Lose The Time War but on crack and with transgender main characters ... it was like a breath of fresh air."
--Jace Molloy
"A raucous, dimension-spanning sci-fi romance, whose protagonist, Acrasia, is impossible not to root for."
--Publishers Weekly
"A romantic prank! An undoing/fondueing of narrative conventions! A compendium of incongruous brilliance! Whatever you call it, this book establishes Violet Allen as an utterly essential, astounding new voice in 21st century literature"
--Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster
"What if Leopold Bloom were a transsexual poet with a range of destructive occult powers, a coven of frenemies and an even more destructive crush? And what if she unraveled, not over a single ordinary day in Dublin, but over a fractured multidimensional timeloop weaving through several universes, a few collapsing waveforms and an infinity of disastrous dates? Violet Allen has set the sights of her laser pistol on the so-called trans novel and demonstrated the appalling insufficiency of both of its operative terms. This typographical fantasia, this lovechild of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cain's Jawbone, this vicious celebration of the poetics of doomed self-regard, this dizzying, dazzling monstrosity contains the world - no, several possible worlds."
--Harry Josephine Giles, author of Deep Wheel Orcadia
"Tremendously fun, funny and inventive ... it's refreshing to read a trans romance with so many carefully drawn relationships, epic scope, and this particular sharp-eyed perspective on identity politics, not to mention its literary ambition ... out of her anime and sci-fi pastiche, Allen has crafted something original, romantic, and sincere."
Caio Major, Second Adolescence
"Gloriously ambitious ... there is so much fun happening in Violet Allen's multi-dimension enemies to lovers story you might not notice just how smart the book is."
--Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
"Are you a fan of romantasy? Do you like it when things get weird? Well, buckle in, cuties."
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