I'm going to the library tomorrow, so maybe I'll try to find that collection of short stories. I really prefer SF short stories to longer works - they seem to get too bogged down in details. Have you ever read Tracy Weis' Star of the Guardians series? It just went on and on and she had to rip off daleks and Star Wars and everything else along the way! It's been years and I'm still angry at myself for all the time I spent reading those books just to get to the end of the story ;-)

The sexism in Transmet is supposed to be over the top and tongue in cheek. He is supposed to be a complete bastard :-D If I recall right, that kind of goes away after the first two years. It's been a while since I read it. I found Warren Ellis' vision of the future to be a little more realistic than most, or at least more realistic than clean, peaceful utopias. It's going to be a long time before we live in a non-discriminatory world.