"A Type of Favor"; "Playing Against Type"; and "Playing to Type"

Title"A Type of Favor"; "Playing Against Type"; and "Playing to Type"
Year for Search2010
AuthorsKowal, Mary Robinette(b. 1969)
Secondary TitleShareable Futures
Date Published2010
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

A trilogy of short stories set after the Oil Wars in which co-operatives work together on the basis of favors which can be traded, which is presented as eutopian.

URLhttp://shareable.net/blog/a-type-of-favor. http://shareable.net/blog/playing-against-type, and http://shareable.net/blog/playing-to-type. Accessed February 3, 2011.
Author Note

Female author (b. 1969).

Full Text

2010 Kowal, Mary Robinette (b. 1969). “A Type of Favor”; “Playing Against Type”; and Playing to Type”. Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/a-type-of-favor. Posted June 29, 2010; http://shareable.net/blog/playing-against-type. Posted July 1, 2010; and http://shareable.net/blog/playing-to-type. Posted July 2, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011.

A trilogy of short stories set after the Oil Wars in which co-operatives work together on the basis of favors which can be traded, which is presented as eutopian. Female author.