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Chaotic Universe, by Beth Goder

September 30, 2026 · 34 min

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Performed by Anthony Babington


Sabtal has questions about the meaning of life and death.


Beth Goder is an archivist and author. Her stories have appeared in venues such as Escape Pod, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Flash Fiction Online, Apex, Strange Horizons, and Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. She loves chocolate, hiking, and checking out too many books from the library. You can find her online at http://www.bethgoder.com.


An Expression of Silence and Other Stories is Beth Goder’s debut collection of twenty-four speculative stories, accompanied by author’s notes with details about how she wrote them.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bethgoder/an-expression-of-silence-a-short-fiction-collection


Anthony Babington is an aspiring voice actor, who looks just slightly off from how he sounds. From his secret volcano lair in Minnesota, he narrates podcasts and leases his soul to corporate America. He has work in Far Fetched Fables, Starship Sofa , Tales to Terrify and The Cursed Inn podcast. He can be found on Twitter at @AlephBaker


This episode was sponsored by Navigator Karen Pelczar

Audio production by Andrew Gibson.

First reading by Nathaniel Matthews Lee.

Music by Ardie Son.

And art by grandfailure.

Season One hosted and produced by Seth Williams.


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