Beth Goder
Beth Goder is an author and archivist whose stories have appeared in Escape Pod, Analog, Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, Nature, and Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy.Forthcoming
"And We All Come to the End, Around, Around." Hauntings and Hoarfrost
"Murder on the Eris Express." (novella) Analog
"Mirror-hole." Flash Fiction Online
"Please Properly Cage Your Words." Diabolical Plots
"Seven Ribbons." Apex
2024
“Thorn.” Once Upon a Future Time, Volume 3
“Labyrinth.”The Dark
"Two Vases Fall." Factor Four
"Mycotrophs." Bitter Become the Fields
"Ocean House." Heartlines Spec
2023
“The Forgotten Bakery in the Valley of Ears.” Kaleidotrope
"One Pinch, Two Pinch." Lightspeed
"The Giant's Dream." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
2022
"Rundle 105." Dark Matter Magazine
“Make Your Own Happily Ever After.” Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales
"The Appliance Crisis." Flash Fiction Online
"The Cinnamon Thread." Podcastle
"An Expression of Silence."
- Originally published in Clarkesworld
- Reprinted in The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 3, August 2023
“One Day in Infinity.” Cast of Wonders
"Mycelium."
- Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August issue
- Reprinted in Gamut, July 2024
“Dinosaur Portal Mayhem.” Rockets and Robots
"The Ocean Waits." Martian
"The Restaurant of Object Permanence." Diabolical Plots
"The Restaurant of Object Permanence."
- Originally published in Diabolical Plots
- Podcast in Cast of Wonders, October 2024
“The Time Loop Device is Counting Down.” Unidentified Funny Objects 9, TBA
2021
“The Space Mermaid's Garden.” Mermaids Monthly
“Photobombing the Apocalypse.” Cossmass Infinities - 2020: The First Year
“Sisyphus and the Sun.” Martian
“Echo Echo Heartbeat.” Flash Fiction Online
“Candide; Life-.” Clarkesworld
“History in Pieces.” Clarkesworld
2020
"The Punctuation Factory." Unidentified Funny Objects 8
“True Colors.” Analog, September/October 2020 issue
“The House That Leapt Into Forever.” Clarkesworld
“Memories of a Rose Garden.” Community of Magic Pens, anthology
2019
“Fairy-Tale Ending.” Flash Fiction Online
“Streetlight Discovers Kandinsky.” Constellary Tales
“Seeds Travel.”
- Originally published in Nature
- Reprinted in Small Wonders, February 2024
- Podcast at Cast of Wonders, August 2024
2018
“The Fermi Loneliness Problem,” Unidentified Funny Objects 7
“How to Identify an Alien Shark.”
- Originally published in Fireside.
- Reprinted in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition
- Podcast at Toasted Cake, April 2020
“Move Fast and Break Things.” Factor Four Magazine
“Our Weight on Other Worlds.” Factor Four Magazine
“The Great Scientist Rivalry on Planet Sourdough.”
- Originally published in Reading 5x5, charity anthology.
- Podcast at Escape Pod, August 2019
2017
“When All the Clocks Are Wrong.” Escape Pod
“Pulling Secrets from Stones.”
“To the Eggplant Cannon.” Metaphorosis
2016
“The Forgetting Place."
- Originally published in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry.
- Podcast at The Centropic Oracle, February 2018
Murder or a Duck.
- Originally published in Escape Pod.
- Reprinted in Time Travel Anthology from Flame Tree Press, August 2017
- Reprinted in Cossmass Infinities, September 2020
“Eating the Sun.”
- Originally published in Mothership Zeta.
- Reprinted in Flash Fiction Online, September 2019
“Windows.” Escape Pod
“The Wish Giver.”
- Originally published in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry.
- Reprinted in Mirror Dance, September 2019
2015
“The Sound That Carries Across the Ocean.” Freeze Frame Fiction