About

A Northern California native, Nancy Mangini has always been fascinated with math and science. She began her professional career as a pharmacist but left it behind to join the personal computing revolution sweeping nearby Silicon Valley in the 1980s. Over the next two decades, she authored a wide variety of technical and scientific publications, "telling the story" of innovations and products that would shape the cultural and economic landscape of the twenty-first century.
In 2007, after earning her MBA from Santa Clara University, Nancy joined the ELORET Corporation's executive team at NASA's Ames Research Center to document the agency's cutting-edge breakthroughs in aerospace software. For her work on the DPLR Software User Manual, she and her team won NASA's 2008 Software of the Year Award, one of the agency's highest honors.
Upon her retirement from NASA, Nancy began writing a science fiction series, The Tandor Chronicles, publishing her debut novel, The Eyes of Tandor, in August 2025.
Nancy lives with her husband, Michael, in Emerald Hills, California, a stone's throw north of Silicon Valley.

Featured Work

The Enemies Within - Book Two in The Tandor Chronicles

2026
Tess Bailey and her team of outcast scientists escape to the ISS to hide from enemies on Earth and beyond the quantum barrier

The Enemies Within chronicles the continuing adventures of the rogue NASA scientists known as The Spacers led by technical writer, Tess Bailey, in their quest to warn Earth of ongoing attacks to the human genome by aliens across the quantum barrier to keep humans fighting with each other and halt their evolutionary progress. After several of the genetically altered humans launch failed attempts to assassinate the Spacers, Tess leads the surviving team off Earth to the aging International Space Station, to recover from their injuries and plan their next move. At the same time, leaders on the alien planet Tandor that are sending the genomic attacks, are fighting their own internal battles for the soul of their species to decide if Tandorans are to be known as the predators or saviors of the multiverse. Only through direct contact with the Earth entity known as Tess and her unique quantum computing device can both humans and Tandorans combine forces to save the future of their species!

Other Works

  • The Eyes of Tandor

    2025