What is it about?
Operator 220 is a productive being, part of the Productive Society, a community based on genetics, technological advances and human cloning, competing monthly to reach the top of the system, but has a strong rival, Operator 330. A day his rival disappears and the Detectors point him out as the main person responsible. Where is Operator 330?
How it was made?
Los Unproductivos arises from social criticism of the capitalist system. The corporatist model circumscribes the human being in the perverse logic of the winner and the loser. There are no humans. These ideas were floating around in my mind in a damned way. Furthermore, in 1996 Dolly the sheep, the first animal clone, was born, and in 2001 the human genome project was published. Both topics obsessed me, they made worries about the future explode in my mind: Will there be human clones in the future that are governed by perverse corporatist logic?
In 2001 I began researching human cloning and its variations, and the human genome. I wrote The Unproductives in a wild way. I wrote the first draft in three months. But the rewrite was long. I had 10 previous versions and none of them satisfied me. The 11th version satisfied me and I considered that it should be published. I sent it to 4 publishers and they didn't accept it. In 2014, the Casa de la Cultura publishing house opted for the novel. Three years later, the Chilean publishing house Andesgraud wanted to publish it for Chile.
Iván Rodrigo, Critic
The novel demonstrates the narrative capacity of the author who uses pleasant prose, nothing overloaded, nothing rhetorical,
Alex Cuzme, Writer and editor
The Unproductives reminds us that confronting power is dangerous, that it is deadly to question “reality,” and that the media game continues to be important in determining what is “good” or “bad” based on the interests involved.
Catalina Sojos, Writer
In less than two hours the book is devoured, thanks to its substance and form.
What did the readers think?
Amazing Stories
(USES)
"It should be noted that the novel demonstrates the narrative capacity of the author who uses pleasant prose, nothing overloaded, nothing rhetorical, which leads us, from the first page, to follow the adventures of Operator 220, a worker who bets and makes economic transactions , without awareness of the nature of their work, until they realize that they are part of a highly dehumanized model of society.
stories in his
ink
(SPAIN)
"Only the great dominators of the genre like Cristian Londoño can take current society and extrapolate it to a future not as distant as we can assume. And this without having to explain how it works. The work of creating that future world is so conscientious that it is not It is necessary to dedicate space to explain it to the reader, it is the reader himself who “sees it and understands it” as the story goes by..."
Magazine
rocaNante
(ECUADOR)
"The Unproductives, is a tribute to the best science fiction novelists whose work has revolved around the control and oppression of humanity: Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley. Londoño, with this novel, not only recreates a situation close to reality , one where people have ceased to be and have become simple workers or cogs of a single force. Depersonalized, anonymous, secret, disposable, replaceable. Lives whose sole purpose is to continue a march that should not stop for anything. .."
