Short Stories:The Celestial Omnibus; Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month's stories are "The Celestial Omnibus" (1911) by E. M. Forster and "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience" (2017) by Rebecca Roanhorse (aware she can be considered a problematic author - see links at the end that discuss issues with one of her novels)

Links to the stories:
The Celestial Omnibus: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34089/34089-h/34089-h.htm#THE_CELESTIAL_OMNIBUS
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/welcome-to-your-authentic-indian-experience

E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster) (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is most famous for his novels. Forster is also known for a creed of life which can be summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End, "Only connect." Forster's two most noted works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore the irreconcilability of class differences. This problem is somewhat mitigated by his use of mysticism, for which he has been criticized. Forster's humanistic ideas recognize the difficulties of overcoming class differences, but he introduces a mystical element to help resolve these problems. Some of his characters, such as Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End and Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India have a mystical link with the past and are able somehow to connect with people from beyond their own circles, reconciling the "irreconcilable" class differences only through a spiritual deus ex machina. (excerpted from https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/E._M._Forster)

Rebecca Roanhorse is a New York Times bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer. She has published multiple award-winning short stories and novels, including two novels in The Sixth World Series, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, Race to the Sun for the Rick Riordan imprint, and the epic fantasy trilogy Between Earth and Sky. She was the guest editor of America’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (2023) and a contributor to the New York Times “100 Best Books of the 21st Century”. She has also written for Marvel comics and games, and her TV writing includes FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, and the Marvel series Echo for Disney+. She has had her own work optioned by Paramount, Amazon Studios, Netflix, and AMC Studios. (From https://www.loc.gov/item/n79062641/kurt-vonnegut/)

Roanhorse was adopted by white parents and has said that she is of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo descent through her \ mother's family, and African American on her father's side (from https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Rebecca%20Roanhorse) Some critique of her use of Navajo culture in her books:
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2018/08/concerns-about-roanhorses-trail-of.html
https://indianz.com/News/2020/06/24/the-elizabeth-warren-of-the-scifi-set-au.asp
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-dangers-of-the-appropriation-critique/