What is, is, and that's what we know. What will be is a fin… - C. J. Cherryh

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What is, is, and that's what we know. What will be is a fine pursuit, but fraught with too damned many possibilities. Fortune-telling, I tell you, is not what it's surmised to be.

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C. J. Cherryh (born Carolyn Janice Cherry on 1 September 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Birth Name: Carolyn Janice Cherry

Alternative Names: Carolyn Janice Cherryh • Carolyn Cherry • Carolyn Cherryh

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