The Collected Kagan

I found this collection of short stories a bit disappointing after reading the author's excellent novel Hellspark. They're fairly standard “classic” SF, with the main exception being that they have a reasonable proportion of female characters instead of the usual bunch of men plus occasionally one (1) woman.

I found one of the stories (“Love Our Lockwood”) completely incomprehensible, as it seems to be a satire on something to do with voting in America, but I couldn't work out what the something was. And several of the others focus on overly simplistic solutions to complex political problems, which isn't really my thing.