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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 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.
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
"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
“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
“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 diastrous 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
Product Details
Publication Date: May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-9643220-2-5
Page Count: 336
Dimensions: 5.5” x 8.0”
