Professor Lang's important work, with all due respect, does… - Charles Sheffield

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Professor Lang's important work, with all due respect, does not answer that question." The knife, sliding in hidden behind the compliment. "With all due respect" meant "with no respect at all.

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Charles Sheffield (25 June 1935 – 2 November 2002) was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.

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Alternative Names: Charles A. Sheffield • James Kirkwood

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