Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One by Violet Allen

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 - A them Most 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?

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.

Shualee Cook writes plays and musicals as a way of asking questions and figuring out possible answers within a community. She is the recipient of LA New Play Project Award, the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award, the Chesly/Bumbalo Award, and the RAC Artist Fellowship. Her work has been published in the anthology Bliss, and the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays volume 2.

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