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Nancy E. Shaffer has been an experimental psychologist, a philosopher, and a software developer. She taught history and philosophy of science at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Her philosophical work has appeared in the journal Philosophy of Science and her pop-culture philosophy website, All Things Philosophical on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series.

Her first novel, Dis/inhbition, turns a state university lab into an emotional crucible for exploring the complex relationship between a young neuroscientist and her mentor. Nancy is currently working on the first novel of a science fiction series, Aethersphere.

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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This novel strikes me as a bit First-World-problemsy. This relatively privileged 35-year-old woman from 21st century England has infinite possibilities, but is that essential to the human condition? Would a person whose race made them prone to capture and enslavement in 18th century culture have infinite possibilities? Would a woman from a p

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