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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Callahan's Lady" by Spider Robinson. Baen SF bought in 2001, although the SF elements in this particular book are fairly minor. The narrator of the book is a Brooklyn prostitute who unexpectedly finds herself working in "Lady Sally's" brothel, which attracts an unlikely range of customers. Good, but don't read it if fairly explicit sexual references would cause you offence.
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One of my all-time favorites, along with the sequel,
Lady Slings the Booze. And, to be honest, most of the "Callahan's" books, although the last one was a real downer.
I just finished
Saving Mars, first of six in the series. I was irritated by some formatting and copyediting goofs (such as not italicizing ship names, when the included excerpt shows that they're italicized in the second book), but that's pretty minor. More importantly, it reminded me of what
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress might have looked like as a modern Heinlein juvenile. I quite enjoyed it, and I've already started the sequel. Oh, and the main character's brother is on the autism spectrum, but he's not trivialized. He has significant things to do, and the depictions of his behavior ring true to me.