Reaching the Shore

'''Lavín, Guillermo. "Reaching the Shore."''' 1994. Rena Zuidema and Andrea Bell, translators. In Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavílan, editors. Middletwon, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003: 224-34.

Discussed in detail by Lisa Rivera, "Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction After NAFTA" (our source for this citation) as a combination of cyberpunk, labor-history, and anti-neocolonial SF featuring a maquiladora worker with used as a guinea pig to test virtual reality chips, making him into a variety of cyborg and a kind of symbol for the dehumanizing effects of "capitalist hegemony in the era of free trade" (in Latham, pp. 534-37).

RDE, Initial Compiler, 5July17