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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.

She currently resides in Tempe, Arizona.

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172 Hours on the Moon

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Drivel. Horror fiction masquerading as science fiction, capitalizing on the fear of the unknown in space to eek out yet one more story of the human fear of the unknown in general. But this juxtaposition of the supernatural, teen scream movies, and the classic space exploration story just ends up being awkward and confused, never really figuring out what sort of story it is and...

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