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Squires, Susan

(?   -    ) US author, mostly of paranormal romances of little direct sf interest, though some of her tales competently incorporate sf into the surge, an example being the Near Future Body Electric (2002), whose disaffected female protagonist creates an AI whose personality inhabits a Cyberpunk-inflected Virtual Reality. Very little of the Vampire Companion Universe series of linked tales – beginning with The Companion (2005) and moving to a different protagonist in continuations starting with One With the Night (2007) – makes use of the sf toolkit; though the vampire protagonist of One with the Darkness (2008), which begins the DaVinci Time Travel subseries, does make use of Leonardo da Vinci's Time Machine in an attempt to retrieve a long-dead mortal lover. Further volumes in this subseries, however, water down the sf element. [JC]

Susan Squires

born California

works

series (selected)

Companion Universe

• The Companion (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2005) [Companion Universe: pb/]
• The Hunger (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2005) [Companion Universe: pb/]
• The Burning (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2006) [Companion Universe: pb/Shirley Green]
• One With the Night (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2007) [Companion Universe: pb/Shirley Green]
• One With the Shadows (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2007) [Companion Universe: pb/]

Companion Universe: DaVinci Time Travel

• One With the Darkness (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2008) [Companion Universe: DaVinci Time Travel: pb/]
• Time for Eternity (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2009) [Companion Universe: DaVinci Time Travel: pb/]
• A Twist in Time (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2010) [Companion Universe: DaVinci Time Travel: pb/]
• The Mists of Time (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2008) [Companion Universe: DaVinci Time Travel: pb/]

individual titles (selected)

• Body Electric (New York: Leisure Books, 2002) [pb/]
• No More Lies (New York: Dorchester Publishing/Love Spell, 2003) [pb/]

links

• Susan Squires
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 00:03 am on 12 July 2025.
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