by Violet Allen
Littlepuss Press
5/19/2026, paperback
SKU: 9781964322025
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?
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.
Reviews:
"Will leave readers clamoring for part two." -- Booklist (starred review)
"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)
"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
"A raucous, dimension-spanning sci-fi romance, whose protagonist, Acrasia, is impossible not to root for." -- Publishers Weekly
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.