Two worlds, one light, five little wonders.

I write in German, from the Dominican Republic: three series — The Chronicles of the Shattered Sun, The Blood Seal and The Lost Light — and, for my grandchildren, bilingual stories about how the world works.

The Series

Three series, three registers.

Out now

Epic Fantasy · A saga in ten volumes

The Chronicles of the Shattered Sun

Volume I — Das erwachende Fragment

A thousand years ago the sun broke apart. Seven fragments fell onto Aeryndor and changed everything — the laws of nature, the climate, the fate of entire peoples. Seven orders guard them. Each claims to know the truth. None of them tells it.

But the sun is still breaking. And deep beneath the world waits a secret older than the lie everything was built on. The saga began in 2026.

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Coming Q4 2026

Urban Fantasy · New Adult · Trilogy

The Blood Seal

Book I — Das Blutzeichen

Beneath Paris, deeper than the Métro, lies the Refugium, where the Ankerbund guards a bond that was sealed in blood a very long time ago.

Nele Hartmann is eighteen and always took the mark on her arm for a quirk of nature — until a dry well gives way beneath her.

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Planned for 2027

Literary Fantasy · The world of Valis

The Lost Light

Volume I — Der erste Riss

In a world where magic was once as natural as wind and water, people have forgotten how to listen to it. The Guild controls every form of magic, the Church preaches order — and hardly anyone suspects that the world itself is slowly falling silent.

When sixteen-year-old Aemilia discovers that magic behaves differently around her, the balance of power begins to shift. In the south, the young priest Eiran searches forbidden archives for traces nobody was meant to find.

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Children's book · Pip & Friends, Book 1 · Bilingual EN / ES

Little Wonders / Pequeñas maravillas

Five Bilingual Stories About How Things Work
Cinco cuentos bilingües sobre cómo funcionan las cosas

Why does it rain? What makes a friendship work? Some questions are too big for a quick answer. In these five gentle stories children don't get told how the world works — they watch it happen.

A small hedgehog searches the night forest for a star that has fallen from the sky. A raindrop leaves its cloud in fear and travels all the way to the sea and back again. Every story follows one little character through a real adventure, and along the way something about the world quietly explains itself. I wrote them for my grandchildren.

1. Pip and the Lost Star A story about friendship, and why two can do what one cannot.
2. The Little Raindrop The water cycle, and how courage is only ever the next small step.
3. Lilli, the Little Seed How a tiny seed grows into a plant, and why even darkness has a purpose.
4. Bella, the Little Bee How bees help flowers become fruit, and why even the smallest visitor can make a big difference.
5. Ben, the Little Caterpillar The wonder of metamorphosis, and how a little caterpillar becomes something he never imagined he could be.

About me

Pen name · writes in German · lives in the Dominican Republic

A. B. Calder is the pen name of an author who has been working on a single story for more than fifteen years.

He lives with his family in the Dominican Republic — far from the German-speaking world, but close to the conviction that language and home need not be the same thing. By day he works as a self-employed IT contractor, industrial electronics technician and freelance programmer — professions concerned with systems, with connections, with the question of why something works and what happens when it stops.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that his first series is about a machine that was meant to hold the world together — and no longer does. A question became characters, the characters became chapters, and the chapters became a saga in ten volumes.

A. B. Calder writes in German. Little Wonders / Pequeñas maravillas is the exception: written for my grandchildren, for children growing up between two languages, and for the better of all questions — not “who rules?” but “how does that work?”.

“Some stories you begin. This one began me.”