"Transitions"

2017 Gunn, Eileen [Katherine] (b. 1945). “Transitions.” Illus. Alexei Vella. Seat 14 C. Ed. Kathryn Cramer Np: XPRIZE/ANA. No longer available online. Rpt. in her Night Shift plus Ursula and the Author plus Promised Lands and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022), 65-76. PSt

All the stories in the original online anthology are present as if the protagonists had been on a flight that landed twenty years after it took off. A list can be found at https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673124. In this story, the protagonist is a Black, female, engineer and is primarily concerned with her thoughts about how she will fit in and meeting her husband, who has remarried, her son and his wife and her grandchildren, and her parents. It takes place in a future U.S. that has broken up into nine sections, controlled by oligarchs. Female author.