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Maurice Broaddus@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social |
Asking for a friend (seriously!): what are some examples of sex worker representation in sf/f (literature especially)?
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Alan Rew
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Pris in Blade Runner
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Rowena
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Dooley
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Inara in Firefly. Companion.
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Archangel Beth
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Sex-work adjacent, in stripping:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thr...
(Title and cover are spoilers for the story. 🙄)
(Bujold has a lot of *mentions* of Beta Colony's professionals, and some second-hand recounts of Barryaran ones in... _Barrayar_, I think?)
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Hugo Book Club Blog
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Company Town by @madelineashby.bsky.social features a protagonist who works as a staffer for the Canadian Union of Sex Workers.
It’s also just a great book.
(Because sex workers face a lot of exploitation and abuse, they’re some of the workers who would most benefit from unionization.)
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Shecky
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Amos in the Expanse books by James SA Corey.
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📸📷🚀
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Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold
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Alex Burns
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Oh, and Record of a Spaceborne Few, by Becky Chambers
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Alex Burns
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
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Jennifer Pullen
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Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart. About half the focal characters, including the POV character.
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Amanda
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Record of a Spaceborn Few
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Emerence
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Alan Moore’s Hypothetical Lizard
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Fiona Moore (new story collection, Human Resources, out now)
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
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The original Battlestar Galactica had Cassiopeia, a socialator (courtesan)— a respected professional and on-off girlfriend to both Starbuck and Cain.
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Harkthorn
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Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin The Apothecary Diaries (light novel/manga/recent anime)
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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄
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I remember in The Expanse there was mention that in a certain asteroid all brothels were unionized.
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David Seaver
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Two of the main characters in Steve Perry's "The Man Who Never Missed" series from the 80s were current or former SWs in the course of the series. Dunno how these stories read in the present day, but the characters were pretty matter-of-fact about it.
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Mary Branscombe
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the wonderfully named Guilded Lilies (unionised brothels) in Scott Lynch's Lock Lamora books the comfort (?) bots in Murderbot
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Stanthorpe
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Saturns Children by Charles Stross. Well, sort of.
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@rdocherty.bsky.social
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In Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando'. When Orlando is a woman she has an encounter with a sex worker called Nell and befriends Nell and some of her friends. It's just over two pages, and told through the lense of Orlando. So representation but not from their view point
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OtterB
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Licensed Companions (LCs) in J D Robb’s In Death series. There’s a broad range of how much respect they get from other characters.
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Ardyce Alspach
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Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear.
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C. A. Bridges
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All the Lady Sally books by Spider Robinson. Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross. When Gravity Falls (and the sequels) by George Alec Effinger.
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summervillain / a. lee welles
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I didn’t see a mention yet of Ryka Aoki’s “Light from Uncommon Stars” and I’ll take almost any chance to hype this novel. Katrina Nguyen is (barely) subsisting on risky sex work at the outset.
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Premee Mohamed
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Gene Wolfe's 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus' has one storyline with the owner of a brothel, and my own work 'And What Can We Offer You Tonight' is a full cast of sex workers!
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Jaymie Moore
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Smoke and Mirrors by Jane Lindskold The women who work for Fortunato in the Wild Cards shared universe books. Mainly in the Lewis Shiner stories in the early books, though also in Zelazny's Croyd Crenson stories.
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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting
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Oh oh! Also Becky chambers the space born few (third book in the wayfarer series, but totally stand alone) builds an entire feasible infrastructure around sort of clean free no judgement brothels and shows the friendship forming between a female priest and her male prostitute named sunny
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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting
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Just finished Ben bovas Uranus where the main character Raven is a former sex worker who uses her manipulation of men to save the orbital habitat
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Nick Croom
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Molly in Neuromancer.
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🦋earis🦋 (formerly archaelologog)
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One of Camp Zero’s main characters is a sex worker during the book, but that’s more climate dystopia than classic sci-fi.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
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I have some in City of last Chances and House of Open Wounds.
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Stephen H. Segal
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The courtesans Tamara Sperling, and Magdalene aka Rebecca Sperling-Jones, from Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love.”
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PolyChrome
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Delilah S. Dawson
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Wake of Vultures.
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Tim
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The Expanse series/show has some, especially in the parts that focus on Amos's experience.
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Malda Marlys 🦇🦇🦇 🏳️🌈
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Hadeer Elsbai's Alamaxa Duology features a brothel as base of operations for the political rabble rousers in the main cast, with a lot of SWs among the radicals. One of the POV characters and the closest the book has to a hero is a SW in Indra Das's The Devourers, though that's a little more horror.
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Matt
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Chenille and Hyacinth in Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun are both sex workers - one working in a brothel, the other more of a high end call girl
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Jonathan Leggo
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Courtesans in Premee Mohamed’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight
www.neonhemlock.com/books/and-wh...
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Avilyn
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T. Kingfisher's Saint of Steel series; the city has The Scarlet District with licensed prostitution.
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)
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Amber Dawn's Sub Rosa might be more magical realism or spec fic, but it centres sex workers.
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
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And indeed original Blade Runner. Pris is a "basic pleasure model".
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
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Did we mention Bladerunner 2049 yet? "Joi hires replicant prostitute Mariette as a surrogate for Joi to have sex with K." says the wikip plot summary.
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
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Poor Things, recent film, based on the book
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
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Which possibly influenced the triple-breasted sex worker in Total Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger version) (yes I did have to cut and paste from search engine :) )
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
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Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six.
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Iain Bancarz
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The sexbots in the Murderbot series by Martha Wells, from book 2 onwards.
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Laine
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Samuel Delany has a bunch, in the Neveryona series for sure
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Kathy Applebaum
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Premee Mohamed's "And What Can We Offer You Tonight" is centered around sex workers in a dystopian society.
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Mari Ness, writer of things
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Since I didn't see this mentioned yet, Game of Thrones, book and series, lots of sex workers, most prominently Shae.
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