The volume anthologizes the best entries of the blog, added to new contributions by writers such as Carlos Labbé, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Claudia Apablaza, and Rodrigo Fresán.īaradit published Synco in 2008 (in 2012 he began to work on a graphic version of the novel), an alternate history of democratic socialism that develops after 1973, with Augusto Pinochet appointed by Salvador Allende to replace General Carlos Prats. From that experience came the book CHI元: Relación del Reyno (Ediciones B, 2010), for which he invited Francisco Ortega, Álvaro Bisama, and Mike Wilson to act as co-editors. įrom 2006 to 2008, he maintained the Ucronía Chile blog, a project that invited writers, illustrators, photographers, and videographers to twist Chilean history at any point and under any criteria. Macondo already has fiber optic networks, but his shamans still take ayahuasca,' he said at the time. Miquel Barceló, editor of the NOVA collection of Ediciones B, in which both works appeared, described Ygdrasil as a 'revolution in science fiction in Spanish', and characterized Baradit's writing as cyber-shamanism, a definition that is not to the Chilean's liking – 'I prefer Magical Realism 2.0. It shows a world full of organic technology taken to the limit, an imbunche, dead soldiers who reincarnate as communication systems, and a shaman who orbits the Earth.' Ī year later he wrote a short prequel of Ygdrasil, Trinidad, for which he won the award of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He debuted in literature with Ygdrasil (published in Spain in 2007), 'a story set in a futuristic Mexico, where a Chilean mercenary named Mariana accepts the most dangerous missions that will take her through a digital form of hell. He has been dedicated to literature since 2005.

He studied one year (1987–1988) of Architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and later Graphic Design (1988–1994) at Viña del Mar University, where he graduated.

Coming from a lower-middle-class family, he was educated in public schools and at the Rubén Castro school in Viña del Mar. Jorge Baradit spent his childhood and early adolescence in Valparaíso, where he formed a punk rock band called Trato Bestial, which performed in underground concerts in Valparaíso Region from 1986 to 1991. He is the author of the bestselling popular history trilogy Historia secreta de Chile. Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales (born 11 June 1969) is a Chilean writer, politician and podcaster.

Policía del Karma by Jorge Baradit