Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep Roots | 2016 | Beth Cato | Buy |
| 2 | Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories | 2017 | Beth Cato | Buy |
Beth Cato’s short story collections bring together her standalone shorter speculative fiction in dedicated volumes. The primary collection is Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories (2017), which gathers science fiction and fantasy short stories. The title story — Red Dust and Dancing Horses — evokes a science fiction western setting, but the collection covers a range of speculative subgenres consistent with Cato’s broad interests.
For readers who want to experience Cato’s short fiction in a standalone format rather than through the Gothic Fantasy or Future Science Fiction Digest anthology series, these collections provide a direct and accessible entry point.