Rene Astle 🇨🇦🌻

@castle88.bsky.social

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Author of science fiction and fantasy where characters find their families and their place in the world ... or the universe. Reader of same. Urbanist and environmentalist (the former stemming from the latter). She/her. Find me at reneastle.substack.com.

green barley in a field.
Picture of update notice on phone with no option not to update.
Cover of Encrypted Starpath featuring a man, a woman, and a spaceship on a teal space background. The woman holds a weapon, and the man has a wrench.
Wooden potting table with a dirt drawer. A plaster gargoyle is perched in the corner.
Black Singer 99 sewing machine with its bentwoodcase and a mess of cords.
A rubber stamp with a cat in a spacesuit.
A field of dirt with a few lonely plants and a tub with a blue lid
Image advertising the newsletter post, featuring a woman against a Badlands-like background.
Sketch of an ant done in pencil
Print copy of A Lonely Ship in a Crowded Sky featuring a ship flying towards a station in shades of pink and blue.
The cover of The Two Lies of Faven Sythe, featuring fish and a colourful spaceship that looks like an arrow.
Cover of Stranger in the Desert with what I assume is a photo from the author's travels in Argentina.
Cover of A Lonely Ship in a Crowded Sky, book 4 in The Lyra Cycle. A spaceship flies towards a spherical space station cast in shades of pink and blue.
ebook cover for Bloodborne Pathogens series of vampire thrillers in shades of red, purple and blue set against a background of a table with coffee and a notebook.
A half-finished corset with deer, flowers and leaves on a black background
Red camellia in the sunshine
Variagated cyclamen leaves against a rock wall
Decorative banner for the free sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal book promotion with a man and a woman against a moody background.
Cover of A Lonely Ship in a Crowded Sky with a ship in the foreground and a space station behind, in shades of blue and purple.
Cover of A Hangman Comes to Tyche, showing a cat in a desert landscape with a spaceship taking off in the distance.
Second-hand upright waffle maker
Photo of two books - Enshittification by Cory Doctorow and The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Cover of The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Ink drawing of a man with glasses
The author in an aqua coat with welt pockets, red buttons, and a red zipper.
Drawing of a funky chicken in black, grey, and red.
Photo of Mickey7 on a Kobo ereader and print book murderbot 3 and 4
Bright red and pink coloured, floral patterned running shoes.
The author is an in-progress asymmetrical aqua coat with a red zipper
Red and black zipper laid on an in-progress aqua coat
Crooked book cover against a background of colourful, illustrated aliens, astronauts, and spaceships.
Pink flowers among strong green leaves in December
A rough sketch of a woman in red pencil
Decorative image with the cover of The Paradise Factory on a background of colourful, illustrated aliens, astronauts and space ships.
The author's legs in a mirror wearing bright aqua fitted pants from a pattern that she made her own self.
A pair of blue beetles with white spots done in gouache.
A colour wheel to explore mixing gouache. Strokes are choppy and fluidity isn't right.
Decorative image with the cover of Lightwave Nexus Station on a colourful background of illustrated aliens, astronauts, and planets.
Decorative image of the cover of Chaos Zone against a colourful background of illustrated aliens, astronauts and spaceships.
Decorative image of the cover of A Dead Ship in the Deep Black on a colourful, illustrated background filled with astronauts, aliens, spaceships and planets.
Decorative image featuring to cover of The Dark of Light against a colourful, illustrated backdrop of aliens, astronauts, spaceships and planets.
Decorative image of the colourful "Now I Have a Raygun" cover on an illustrated background of spaceships, planets, aliens and astronauts.
A magical door in a mossy wood, with a fairy, a gnome and a unicorn
Decorative image with aliens, astronauts, fireworks and party hats with the text "3 days until we countdown to the new year with FREE sci-fi books!"
A door with two gnomes and a hedgehog on mossy ground in front of it
Golden leaves against a backdrop of green bamboo.
Two churros covered in cinnamon sugar in a basket.
Sign saying churros / no churros with arrows
A selection of 4 DVDs from the library, including 3 sci-fi series and Murder She Wrote.
Poster for Halloween Market showing the dates and times (Oct 25 11-5 and Oct 26 11-4) and location (Da Vinci Centre 195 Bay St) on an orange and black background featuring a pumpkin, a tree, and owl, and bats.
Me holding a long, curly, bright pink wig with uncertainty.
Carrot pie with a large dollop of homemade ice cream in top. A spoon sits beside ready for eating.
Carrot pie fresh out of the oven with cracks in the top that look like a smiling face
So many beans in so many jars
Salted sui choy cabbage sitting in a container on the stove waiting to have some of its water drawn out.
Colcannon made with rutabaga root and greens and potato.
Pink hydrangeas
Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire