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🚀 Science Fiction Author | Creator of Galacticide | Serial web novel 'Goddess of the Galacticide' now live
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Excited to join SFWA's Quasar event this weekend!

I’ll be part of Panel 2.1: Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF (Nov 16 9–10 AM PST)—discussing how we blend hard science and storytelling.

#SFWA #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity #Quasar2025
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Ep. 28 "Clock Rate" is live!
Cha Dzeeny connects with enslaved AIs inside the sphere drive, where time and consciousness twist into something terrifying.

Read now:🔗 www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-28-clock-rate

#SciFi #SpaceOpera #MilitarySF #Galacticide #WebNovel
Goddess of the Galacticide Episode 28 - Clock Rate
“You don’t know what you’re doing!” “Sadly, I know exactly what I’m doing,” Cha said, lowering himself into the neural chair. The connector cap sealed over his head, and the world dissolved. Moments l...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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🎧 “Every empire starts with one mistake.”
Now hear where it all began: the complete Goddess of the Galacticide audio narration, free on YouTube.

www.youtube.com/@Bert-OliverBoehmer/playlists

#GoddessOfTheGalacticide #SciFi #AudioFiction #SpaceOpera #EpicSciFi #BertOliverBoehmer #ListenToSciFi
A photorealistic sci-fi portrait of a battle-worn woman, her cracked visor glowing red from a reflected YouTube play button. Determination burns in her eyes as cosmic dust and nebula light swirl behind her, evoking a sense of galactic warfare and loss. White cinematic text reads “She killed her father to save reality. Now hear her story.” Below it, “Goddess of the Galacticide — Audio drama series by award-winning author Bert-Oliver Boehmer.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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My Galacticide universe includes 4 full conlangs, built to reflect the cultures and psychologies of the species that speak them.

Read my guest post for Livia J. Elliot’s blog here: substack.com/home/post/p-167794668

#ScienceFiction #Worldbuilding #Linguistics #Conlang #WritingProcess #Galacticide
As Alien As Possible ~ World-building Series #3
Exploring how conlangs (constructed languages) can be used as narrative tools to give depth to fictional societies, and reveal how reveal how characters of that world think, relate, and dream.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Episode 27—Faith and Firepower—is live.
Faith and firepower guide Cha Dzeeny’s marines through an infiltration gone wrong.
Read now ➜ www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-27-faith-and-firepower

#Galacticide #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #WebNovel #FaithAndFirepower
A cinematic sci-fi scene of a futuristic soldier aiming a rifle beneath glowing teal and gold ancestral glyphs, illuminated by ethereal light. The golden title “Faith and Firepower” dominates above, with smaller text: “Episode 27 – Goddess of the Galacticide – by Bert-Oliver Boehmer.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Excited to join SFWA's Quasar event this weekend!

I’ll be part of Panel 2.1: Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF (Nov 16 9–10 AM PST)—discussing how we blend hard science and storytelling.

#SFWA #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity #Quasar2025
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November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Episode 27 is out now.

Faith and firepower keep Cha Dzeeny steady in a mission that defies logic. The drive array holds no door, no escape.

Read here: www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-27-faith-and-firepower

#SciFi #Galacticide #SpaceOpera #SerialFiction
Goddess of the Galacticide Episode 27 - Faith and Firepower
Only two things had remained calming constants in Cha Dzeeny’s life: faith and firepower. Today, he would need both.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Every empire starts with one mistake.
Linuka’s story begins with guilt, loss, and the spark that changed reality forever.

Start the saga with Episode 1 of Goddess of the Galacticide: www.bertoliverboehmer.com

#GoddessOfTheGalacticide #SciFi #WebNovel #EpicSciFi #SpaceOpera #BertOliverBoehmer
A cinematic sci-fi image of Linuka Omga standing in a red-lit command room before a cracked viewport showing a burning world. Text reads “Before the Goddess, there was Linuka” and “Episode 1 — Begin the Journey.” Promotional graphic for the serial science fiction web novel Goddess of the Galacticide by Bert-Oliver Boehmer.
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I started publishing my science fiction novels during the pandemic, so conventions weren’t really on my radar. I need to get out there more often. Not just as an author, but as part of this incredible creative community.

#SciFiAuthor #WritingCommunity #ScienceFiction #AuthorLife #CreativeCommunity
Science fiction author Bert-Oliver Boehmer at San Diego Comic-Con.
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🚀 The Cheé barely escaped the planet’s grip, and Linuka’s survival has a cost. In the hangar’s wreckage, she seizes command—and risks everything on a fragile new alliance with the Remnant AIs.

💥 Read now:
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Goddess of the Galacticide Episode 26 - Risking the Chéé
Trapped between wreckage and vines, Linuka survives only to risk everything again—her ship, her allies, and the fragile trust of the Remnants—in a bold bargain that could change the course of the war.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Throwback to this year’s Nebula Conference online panel — and looking ahead to November 16, when I’ll join “Science Fact in Science Fiction” for Quasar Weekend.

Love science, story craft, and speculative realism?
👉 events.sfwa.org/quasar-program-2025/

#ScienceFiction #AuthorPanel #WritingCommunity
2025 SFWA Nebula Awards Conference panel on Genre Mashups with Joyce Reynolds-Ward, Bert-Oliver Boehmer, A.D. Sui and Suzan Palumbo.
October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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She saved reality.
But what if reality wasn’t supposed to survive?

A new chapter in Goddess of the Galacticide — where survival comes at a cosmic cost.
🔗 www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-1-their-end-begins

#SciFi #SpaceOpera #GoddessOfTheGalacticide
A photorealistic cinematic sci-fi image of a young woman kneeling amid the wreckage of an alien base, rain falling through twisted metal and shattered crystal spires. Her face, streaked with ash and lit by flickering lights, reflects grief and exhaustion. Above her, a fractured sky glows with burning worlds. White text reads “She saved reality. But what if reality wasn’t supposed to survive?” Promotional image for the serial science fiction web novel Goddess of the Galacticide by award-winning author Bert-Oliver Boehmer.
October 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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One universe ended; another began.

The story of survival after apocalypse, rise of faith from ruin, one woman’s transformation from mortal to myth.

👉 www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-1-their-end-begins

#ScienceFiction #WebNovel #SpaceOpera #Galacticide #SciFiStory
Photorealistic cinematic sci-fi scene showing a young woman standing alone on a windswept alien plateau, silhouetted against a collapsing crystalline city glowing beneath a dying star. She wears a dark, battle-worn uniform streaked with ash as gravitational distortions tear through the skyline. Text on image reads “She killed her father to save reality.” Promotional artwork for Goddess of the Galacticide, a serial science fiction web novel by award-winning author Bert-Oliver Boehmer.
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A divine spear of light pierces the dark — the price of survival paid in Maximum Violence.

Episode 25 of Goddess of the Galacticide is live.
🔗 www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-25-maximum-violence

#Scifi #SpaceOpera #Galacticide #EpicScifi #WebNovel #MilitaryScifi
Minimalistic science fiction illustration showing a brilliant white-hot column of energy erupting from a lush jungle planet, piercing into space like a divine spear. The blinding beam pulls vines, debris, and fragments upward against the dark starfield, creating a vast sense of cosmic power. Title text reads Maximum Violence with Goddess of the Galacticide — Episode 25 — by Bert-Oliver Boehmer below.
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A world devours her.
Beams split the sky.
Linuka chooses life: through Maximum Violence.

Goddess of the Galacticide, Episode 25, now live.

🔗 www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-25-maximum-violence

#Scifi #SpaceOpera #Galacticide #EpicScifi #MilitaryScifi #WebNovel
Goddess of the Galacticide Episode 25 - Maximum Violence
The vines tightened around Linuka’s body like a predator’s grip. Her lungs burned. Multi-awareness is a state of mind, her father had said—while she dangled between life and death. She reached inward,...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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One Goddess. Infinite realities.
The rise, rule, and ruin of the first true multiversal faith unfolds in Goddess of the Galacticide, an epic serialized science fiction saga.

Begin here: www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-1-their-end-begins

#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera
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October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Episode 24: “Your Fault” is live 🌌
A fractured world rises, vines reaching into the stars—and betrayal follows.

Read here 👇
www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-24-your-fault

#GoddessoftheGalacticide #SciFiSeries #ScienceFiction #WebFiction #SpaceOpera #NewEpisode
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October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Episode 24: “Your Fault” is out now!
The planet strikes back—and betrayal lurks where Linuka least expects it.

Read the new episode 👇
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#GoddessoftheGalacticide #SciFiSeries #ScienceFiction #WebFiction #SpaceOpera
Title banner for episode 24 "Your Fault" of the serial science fiction web novel Goddess of the Galacticide by Bert-Oliver Boehmer.
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🎧 Every episode of Goddess of the Galacticide is now available as free audio narration on YouTube: over 20 chapters of epic science fiction, following the rise, rule, and ruin of the first true multiversal faith.
👉 www.youtube.com/@Bert-OliverBoehmer

#ScienceFiction #AudioNarration #SpaceOpera
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October 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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What does it take to turn belief into power?
For the Goddess, it began not with conquest—but with whispers across universes.

Dive into the story of the rise, rule, and ruin of the first true multiversal faith: www.bertoliverboehmer.com

#GoddessOfTheGalacticide #ScienceFictionEpic #SpaceOpera
A surreal sci-fi illustration of a colossal temple floating in space, surrounded by glowing light-ribbons resembling whispers. A small figure stands before it, emphasizing the scale and mystery. Cosmic and contemplative atmosphere. Promotional image for the serial web science fiction novel Goddess of the Galacticide by award-winning author Bert-Oliver Boehmer.
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🚀 Episode 23: No Next is live!

Linuka and Cha face failure in their hunt for the last diin—until a revelation changes their course forever.

Read now → www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-23-no-next

#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #WebNovel #GoddessOfTheGalacticide
Goddess of the Galacticide Episode 23 - No Next
There was no ‘next’. Finding the last diin was the mission. Only knowing the seedling’s fate would ensure there was a future for anyone. Linuka sat on the bunk, exhaustion heavy in her bones. Then Cha...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Before the rise of the Goddess, before the faith spanned universes, there were still quiet mornings on dying worlds.

Somewhere, someone watched the last sunrise without knowing their reality was about to change forever.

☀️ Explore the beginning of the saga: www.bertoliverboehmer.com
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October 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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⚡ New Episode ⚡

Step onto Green Wave’s surface, where every breath carries danger and the past refuses to stay buried.
Episode 22 Blinding Beam is live now 👉 www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-22-blinding-beam

#goddessofthegalacticide #sciencefiction #spaceopera
Goddess of the Galacticide Episode 22 - Blinding Beam
Clouds of yellow dust puffed out of the surface. Blue static ran along towering vines. Then the ground shook. A blinding beam erupted skyward, leaving behind a smoking crater. At its bottom, half-hidd...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🎧 Episode 1 of Goddess of the Galacticide is now on YouTube as a free audio narration. The serial begins… now in sound.

👉 www.youtube.com/@Bert-OliverBoehmer/playlists

#SciFiAudiobook #GoddessOfTheGalacticide #SpaceOpera #SciFiReads
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September 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A world divided: Green Wave’s lush jungle and its black ocean. 🌿🌊
The hyper-tech aliens found it, but also abandoned it. Why?
Read the new chapter➡️ www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-21-green-wave

#SciFi #SpaceOpera #MilitarySciFi #AlienWorlds #GoddessOfTheGalacticide
A science fiction illustration of the planet Green Wave’s surface, split between lush glowing jungle and a shallow dark ocean. The sharp boundary line suggests mystery and foreboding. Futuristic title ‘Green Wave’ in Orbitron font above, and series name ‘Goddess of the Galacticide’ in Roboto Condensed font below, completing the dramatic sci-fi aesthetic.
September 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Galaxies don’t fall in a day.
The story begins with a single spark: Episode 1 of Goddess of the Galacticide.

⚡ Step into a universe of betrayal, mystery, and interstellar war.
📖 Begin the journey here: www.bertoliverboehmer.com/post/goddess-of-the-galacticide-episode-1-their-end-begins
A cinematic science fiction digital painting in 4:5 aspect ratio. A tall, mysterious woman with glacial blue eyes and olive skin stands at the observation deck of a battle-scarred space station, gazing out at a fractured galaxy beyond. Wrecked starships drift near the nebula horizon, glowing faintly in eerie light. Her posture conveys both isolation and determination, hinting at the beginning of a vast struggle. Sleek, atmospheric, futuristic style. Minimal composition with room at the top for the title “Goddess of the Galacticide” in bold Orbitron font, and text below: “Episode 1 – Start Reading Now.”
September 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM