Introduction: Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction

[...]it allows for imagining alternative political structures and social formations that might do without, or at least less violence, whether physical or psychological, direct or indirect, structural or cultural. [...]half of the contributions in the two issues focus on 21st-century works, while the other half deal with works released or published before the turn of the Millennium. [...]Sascha Klein's "Outlaw Territories: Negotiations of Gender and Race on the American Inner-City Frontier in U.S. Urban Crime and Sci-Fi Gang Films of the 1970s and 80s" takes a broader historical view of the developments of a violent, masculinized, and racialized film genre. [...]in their review of Ryan Lee Cartwright's Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of Rural Nonconformity (2020), G Angel discusses