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.

"An utterly essential, astounding new voice in 21st century literature."
--Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster

"Will leave readers clamoring for part two."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Singular in format and content ... a kaleidoscopic ride you won't forget."
--Ms. Magazine

"Wild, soulful, hilarious ... think This Is How You Lose The Time War but on crack."
--Jace Molloy

"A raucous, dimension-spanning sci-fi romance, whose protagonist, Acrasia, is impossible not to root for."
--Publishers Weekly

"A generational talent ... delicious, insane, intoxicating."
--Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing

"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 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

"Witty, experimental, and boundary breaking ... storytelling unlike anything you've read before."
--Kaitlyn Mahoney, Under the Umbrella Bookstore (Salt Lake City, UT)

"Tremendously fun, funny and inventive ... out of her anime and sci-fi pastiche, Allen has crafted something original, romantic, and sincere."
--Caio Major, Second Adolescence

"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

"Are you a fan of romantasy? Do you like it when things get weird? Well, buckle in, cuties."
--them

Publisher: Littlepuss Press

Pub date: 2026-05-19

Length: 336 pages