Spain - Natural Consequences - Elia-Barceló

8th October 2025:
Found whilst updating the blog on my book from Catalonia, and debating with myself whether or not to split Catalonia and Spain into separate countries. I did, as this book looks great.

Spain (Catalonia) - Typescript of the Second Origin - Manuel de Pedrolo

23rd June 2024

Found with a bit of googling and reading this article: 

http://www.concatenation.org/europe/spanish_science_fiction.html

and ordered a copy of Typescript of the Second Origin by Manuel de Pedrolo. 

8th October 2025:
Finally got round to starting this book, I was reading 'The Veil' from North Macedonia but it was such a slog to get through I needed a break from it. I wasn't sure that book to pick as my 'to read' pile is pretty healthy looking at the moment. But this was the only paper back on the list, so this was picked as I had an hour wait while my daughter was at her therapy session. I haven't split Catalonia from Spain yet, but if I find another Spanish science fiction author, I may end up splitting out Catalonia, as this is recognised as a Catalonian book, by a Catalonian author written in originally in the Catalan language. So I've learnt a fair amount from the forward and the translators notes, and some random stuff from Wikipedia too.

So after a bunch of googling and reading an article on Clark's world magazine about Spanish Science Fiction, I didn't find too much, so I reverted back to one of my absolute gold mines for finding books which is THE BIG SPREADSHEET on Rachel Corasco's amazing website. and found Natural Consequences by Elia-Barceló, who was born in Elda, Spain; which is not part of Catalonia. So it looks like my project just got one book bigger!

The physical book:

Meh, it's an average looking book, nothing to catch the eye, the title is long winded and not that attention grabbing either, its fairly short at only 160 pages, so should be a fairly quick read.