"The Ugly Duckling" writer

Usage examples of andersen.

Mondragon volunteered to join Andersen and Cruzet on the search expedition.

Cruzet and Andersen looked hard at each other when they heard the clink of bottles in his bag, but he merely muttered an order for them to carry on as planned and took refuge in his curtained cubicle at the rear of the machine, making no trouble.

They made practice runs along the old beach, and Andersen let Mondragon take the wheel when they set out across the frozen ocean.

He used the sextant, as Andersen had taught him, to get a position that let him add one more black ink-dot to the line of black dots on the blank page that was to be their map.

He heard Andersen calling Hinch and then the whisper of the turbine as they pulled farther from the barrier.

Another kilometer back from the ice wall, Andersen stopped the scout to inspect the reactor and the turbine.

They were still two hundred meters away, but Andersen raised his hand.

He saw Cruzet and Andersen glancing at each other as if to say he was a fool, but he followed Hinch down to the lock.

Cruzet was on watch in the bubble, but Andersen came down from the nose to meet them at the air lock.

Still in their airskins, Andersen and Mondragon went out to look over the edge.

Mondragon crouched away from Andersen, feeling sick with pity and dread.

Following uneasily, Mondragon heard the hum and thud of the opening valve and saw Andersen clamber into it, bareheaded.

That eroded metal barrier showed no damage when he reached it, but Andersen had gone on beyond the ragged gap the blast had tom in the stone.

He watched the track and watched the stars and wondered what Andersen would say of los demonios del hielo.

Climbing down the steps, he found Andersen sitting up on the side of his berth.