Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One

Author: Violet Allen
Genres: Sci-Fi, LGBTQ+

Description:
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 May 2026 Pick • A them Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2026 • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Queer Book of 2026

Quotes:
"Astounding." —Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster
"Will leave readers clamoring for part two." —Booklist (starred review)
"This Is How You Lose the Time War but on crack." —Jace Molloy

Summary:
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.

Book Releases This Month

Space Opera

• Recursion: Germinal Book 2 by Aric McBay (AK Press, indie) - June 9
  A pacifist society on a tiny green planet is invaded by Colonizers.

• The Forgetting Navigations by Marlee Jane Ward (Interstellar Flight Press, indie) - June 9
  Our main character has emotional damage from being abandoned in a lifepod in space. A freight hauler rescues her and they bond over tea.

• The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press) - June 2
  In a bioship capable of reacting to a crew’s every need, a nine year old cultist investigates a planet infected with a plague.

Post-Apocalyptic

• Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth (Graywolf, indie press) - June 9
  A romance between a woman raised in a pod in the ocean and a woman who may or may not be a robot.

• The Withers by Lee Upton (Regal House Publishing) - June 23
  A post epidemic book where scars from the disease are called ‘withers’.

Speculative / Literary Sci-Fi

• Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim (Macmillan/Tor) - June 2
  A story about immigration and cloning.

• Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Macmillan/Tor) - June 2
  Genetically engineered animals do the work while humans relax.

• Our Sister's Keeper by Jasmine Holmes (Bindery/Mareas Books, indie) - June 9
  In a fantasy retelling, women known as "carriers" pull traumatic memories from men.

Time Travel

• The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (Macmillan/Tor) - June 2
  Scott Treder slips forward through time daily, losing double the amount of time each time slip.

• Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein (Penguin Random House/Ballantine) - June 23
  An out-of-work actress becomes a time travel tour guide.

Romance

• Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne (Macmillan/Bramble) - June 30
  About a starship captain who purchases a ship covered in moss.

• Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen (LittlePuss Press, indie) – May 19
  Trans enemies to lovers in a magical adventure.

Thriller

• Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer (Macmillan/Tordotcom) - June 2
  An OBGYN is kidnapped by a cult to help birth their babies.

• Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay (HarperCollins/Morrow) - June 2
  A semi-professional gamer pilots a man in a vegetative state across the country.

Anthology

• Ring Shout on Saturn by Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man Books, indie) - June 9
  Afrofuturist short stories.

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