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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 romantasyroars 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.
PRAISE FOR PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID
“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. She weaves a bridge of love across the vast gulfs between our separate worlds. Delicious, insane, intoxicating.”
—Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing
“Skillfully carries the plot through the pandemonium to reach a surprising ending that will leave readers clamoring for part two.”
—Booklist (starred review)
"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 riotous crossover of literary fiction meets romantasy … makes for laugh-out-loud reading … Violet Allen is an engaging talent to watch.”
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Singular in format and content ... a kaleidoscopic ride you won't forget."
—Ms. Magazine
“A raucous, dimension-spanning sci-fi romance, whose protagonist, Acrasia, is impossible not to root for.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Are you a fan of romantasy? Do you like it when things get weird? Well, buckle in, cuties.”
—them
“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
“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)
“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 unravelled, 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
“Witty, experimental, and boundary breaking, this is trans-as-in-playing-with-genre-and-subverting-form storytelling unlike anything you’ve read before.”
—Kaitlyn Mahoney, Under the Umbrella Bookstore (Salt Lake City, UT)
“Acrasia and Opus’ desire to be together is at the heart of the novel, but to say that this union is the point of the story would be kind of like saying that the point of Ulysses is following Leopold Bloom as he goes about his day.”
—Kirkus
“Wildly original … defies all genre conventions. If House of Leaves was queer, funny, and also set in space.”
—Caroline Angell, Prologue Bookshop (Columbus, OH)
“I love when trans people get weird as hell with it ... a mix of The Matrix, This Is How You Lose The Time War, and Star Trek ... genuinely hilarious in exactly the outrageous way I crave satire to be delivered."
—Alex Padfield, Sidetrack Bookshop (Royal Oak, MI)
"A gloriously freewheeling text, capable of pivoting from high culture to low, and from silly to caustic to (sometimes, even) sincere, in the space of a sentence. ... [it’s] about reveling in the messy push-pull of a melodramatic relationship between two somewhat difficult individuals, and it’s about magic vs science, as a proxy for other conceptual pairs and also as an actual pair ... a fulsome success.”
—Locus
"A wild ride … despite everything else going on, it boils down to people who didn’t like each other but then fell in love and now can’t work out if they can sustain something when they’re both in the same place. So, despite the fluid, mind-boggling narrative, it is also something strangely relatable.”
—Fiendfully Reading
"Extraordinary."
—Sound and Fury
“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
Product Details
Publication Date: May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-9643220-2-5
Page Count: 336
Dimensions: 5.5” x 8.0”
