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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Possibility
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Present
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Maze
Mazes
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