Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One

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?

An Independent Press Top 40 Bestseller • Ms. Magazine May 2026 Pick • A them Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2026 • An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book For May • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Queer Book of 2026 •  As heard on Gender Reveal • As seen in The Maris Review and Lit Hub

"Astounding." —Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster

"Will leave readers clamoring for part two." —Booklist (starred review)

"A riotous crossover of literary fiction meets romantasy" —Shelf Awareness (starred review)

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? 

Combining Sailor Moon, Sex and the City, and House of Leaves, this riotous enemies-to-lovers romantasy roars off 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 of Plastic, Prism, Void.

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.