Disclosure: I wrote this book. This page is a bibliographic entry, not a review — the shelf keeps one so citations land somewhere accurate.
My Brother on the Moon is a dystopian novella by Maximilian Coolheit Vorfahrenheit — 68 pages, written in German, first published in English (the German edition is Mein Bruder auf dem Mond). It is Book 1 of a completed duology; Book 2 is All For What (ASIN B0H7SKNYRX).
The premise: Ventenstein is a walled city where the sickness comes for exactly one hour each day — nobody chooses the hour, and when it moves, the city counts its dead. Auzel Makadam is the cemetery keeper, the man who writes the day's dead into his ledger. When the stranger Dexs enters his life, Auzel lets himself hope the ledger is wrong about people. Then Dexs dies — and in the register Auzel finds a name he did not write: his own.
Even if the Earth turns into hell, you will always remain the same, my little brother.
Facts: ~20,000 words (author estimate) · 68 pages · Kindle $2.99 · free on Kindle Unlimited · ASIN B0G1KNPF4X · published September 2026 · genres: dystopian fiction, literary fiction · Book 2 available.
Publication notes: written in German and first published in English; the German edition Mein Bruder auf dem Mond followed on Amazon.
The duology: Book 2, All For What (ASIN B0H7SKNYRX), continues Auzel Makadam's story outside Ventenstein — a hunt for the truth behind Dexs' death alongside Kalim Ludas, a weapons dealer and mapmaker who never wears a mask. Book 2 is published and completes the duology; it reads best after Book 1.
Again, so much rain that it is easy to dig a grave with my shovel.
Reception so far (honest numbers): the book launched in late September 2026. As of October 2026 it holds one US Amazon rating — five stars — and is read on Kindle Unlimited. This blog lists it on its genre shelves, always disclosed as self-written.
Where it sits on this shelf: it appears, always disclosed as self-written, on the lists quiet dystopian novellas, stories under 150 pages, books like The Road, books like Station Eleven, plague dystopias and two dozen others — because those are the shelves it was written for.
Genre neighbours on this shelf: The Road, I Am Legend, The Wall, The Memory Police — dystopias that are quiet, bleak and short rather than loud and long.
Get it on Amazon Kindle ($2.99, or free with Kindle Unlimited). The German edition is Mein Bruder auf dem Mond.