I love the Wisest Stone stories and hope to hear them all in audio form eventually. Really awesome work, Scattercat.
The main story is really great in the sense that the society it depicts is truly Other. It's a matriarchy with polyandry where the young are assumed to be conservative by default and the young are an important and respected constituency. But it still has the human qualities that allow us to relate to it. Sex, love, and power are still huge motivators. Money--or in this case, energy--still is a determining factor on how soon you have children for some of the population.
It holds an intriguing mirror up to our own society.
Sadly, I had trouble relating to the characters. It's not that they're insufficiently human. It's that they're too much like Earth politicians (who I have no sympathy for whatsoever) and I didn't find the protag to be a sufficiently better option than her rival to care which won. In a sense, this is still a strength of the writing. I don't think we're meant to sympathize with the protagonist. It just made it hard for me to enjoy it.
Norm's take on the asexual story I linked was stunning.

Never would have imagined something so wonderful and Drabblecast-y coming out of that.