Author & Illustrator — Melbourne, Australia

Andre
Venture

Science fiction novelist. Children's author and illustrator. Building worlds for grown-ups who love a good mystery, and little explorers who aren't afraid of the cosmos.

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Andre Venture — Author & Illustrator

About the Author

The person
behind the page

Andre Venture is an Australian author and illustrator who loves taking complex ideas apart and putting them back together on the page. His background in IT and corporate education taught him how to untangle complicated systems and explain them to anyone — a skill he now applies to building rich, intricate fictional worlds.

When he isn't writing gripping fiction for adults, Andre writes and illustrates whimsical children's poetry about astronomy and the solar system, driven by the firm belief that the cosmos is simply too fascinating to leave to the grown-ups.


Children's Books

The Rara Raccoon
Series

Rara Raccoon Exploring the Moon — book cover
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Rara Raccoon
Exploring the Moon

Rara Raccoon Series — Book 1

"Is the Moon actually made of cheese?"

Rara Raccoon has a big question and a shiny green rocket, and she is headed straight for the stars to find the answer! Join Rara on her very first mission to the Moon, where she discovers that space is not just dark and quiet — it is full of bouncy gravity, crunchy moon dust, and giant moon bowls.

Written in a playful, rhyming style, this book invites little explorers to follow Rara's poetic journey across the lunar surface. Your child will learn real science facts through engaging verse as Rara investigates regolith, explores craters, and discovers why the Moon is so quiet.

STEM Made Simple: Complex concepts like vacuums and gravity are explained through wonder and curiosity.

Rhyme and Rhythm: The poetic format makes it a perfect read-aloud book for bedtime.

Stunning Artwork: Beautifully illustrated with original designs and AI assistance for a truly boutique feel.

More adventures with Rara coming soon


Novels

Science Fiction

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Legacy Hardware

Standalone Sci-Fi Novel

Sam was not a hero. He was an IT systems administrator who tripped over a rolling stool in a research lab and spent over seven hundred years trapped inside a crystal, watching humanity evolve into something he could no longer understand.

When the crystal finally shatters, the civilization waiting on the other side is everything his wasn't: luminous, elegant, perfectly engineered. It has also stopped working. Colonies are vanishing across the stars without a trace. The fragile, bioluminescent beings who rule what remains of humanity have no idea why, and their bodies cannot survive the journey to find out.

Sam can. Accompanied by a jailbroken museum robot with a growing talent for deadpan humor and an inconvenient capacity for loyalty, he sets out to trace the silence back to its source.

Legacy Hardware is a hopepunk science fiction novel about the persistence of love across deep time, the friendship between a man and a machine, and the stubborn, unreasonable belief that the universe is worth repairing, even when you are the least qualified person available for the job.

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