Well, I’m a Mexico expatriate and write about Tijuana myself, but I never thought of The Frontera as an analogy for The Last Frontier until reading this.

The really powerful analogy, though, is between the discomfort of Mexicans with their Indian/conquistador heritage and SkySeeds’ hero’s being caught between his mother’s third world and a blond father from a civilization so much more advanced that it’s practically folding in on itself.

The idea that what the blonds of "the only human race" think of as home is a completely non-material internetwork that resulted from delays in hypertransport is a good one,  And the characters—the cold and elegant father, stolid healer mother, wildass street buddies, and blueblood redhead girlfriend are shaping up towards a great constellation of conflicts and pairups.

When the Mexican border rats start using the hypertransport tubes to smuggle gems, drugs, and "spacewetbacks" around the universe, things get totally killer and I can’t wait for more.  (I confess, I read some chapters not yet posted to the blog when they were up on the Sky Tribes site.)

Anybody who likes "urban" better than "cloak and wand" might find this a more fun story of age-coming and higher education than that Potter kid.

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