The
latest Chicanonautica, over at La Bloga, documents my meeting with
Mexican science fiction writer Federico Schaffler, and how we're
going to write a story that exploits the weirdness generating from
the U.S. Mexico border, and Arizona. In celebration of our quixotic
project, here's some variations on the theme:
Down in
Mexico, the street does find it's own uses for technology, and art,
and gets stark, raving sci-fi:
Up
norte, Chicano mad scientists do the same:
And to a
lot of gringos, Mexico is just a whole lot of monster movie stuff:
They
also see Borderlandia as an expansion of a Brave New Third World:
Meanwhile,
others are trying to cook up their own transborder utopias:
Yes,
amigos, crossing borders is easy – and fun! You should try it
sometime:
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