Short Stories: The Trojan Girl (Jemisin); There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury)

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 Trojan Girl" (2011) by N. K. Jemisin and "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1951) by Ray Bradbury.

Links to the stories:
The Trojan Girl: https://nkjemisin.com/2012/08/the-trojan-girl/
There Will Come Soft Rains: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
(Bonus story if you want and have time, at recommendation of Ethan, who is good friends with the author - "Physics by the Numbers" by Stephen Granade.): https://escapepod.org/2020/01/23/escape-pod-716-physics-by-the-numbers/

N. K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. (https://us.macmillan.com/author/nkjemisin)

Ray Bradbury was one of the most distinguished and celebrated American authors of the 20th and 21st century. He was an essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and screenwriter, renowned for his writings in genres like horror, fantasy, mystery fiction and science fiction. Though he received recognition as a bold writer with a vision for his science fiction, ‘The Martian Chronicles’, he shot to fame with his masterpiece, ‘Fahrenheit 451’, a dystopian novel considered to be his best work. His other notable works include ‘The Illustrated Man’, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’, ‘The October Country’ and ‘Quicker Than the Eye’. His body of works include around six hundred short stories, thirty books, several plays, poems and essays. Four ‘Best American Short Story’ anthologies include his works. His creative visions were not only limited to his writings. He hosted the ‘Ray Bradbury Theater’, created the interior metaphors at ‘Epcot's’ ‘Spaceship Earth’ in the ‘Disney World’ and served ‘United States Pavilion’ as creative consultant during ‘New York World's Fair’. His animated film ‘Icarus Montgolfier Wright’ earned him a nomination for the ‘Academy Awards’ while his 1993 teleplay ‘The Halloween Tree’ (adapted from his 1972 novel) earned him an ‘Emmy Award’ in 1994. (https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/ray-bradbury-4079.php)