Simon Nordell removed the android's belly plate and set it carefully beside her on the workbench.

A Martian might well find an ocean terrifying, and indeed she seemed paralyzed, borne headfirst toward the beach on her belly plates.

It had gone between two belly plates.

All twelve High Drive motors had devoured themselves, taking with them divots from the vessel's belly plates.

A belly plate fell off, winking with the reflection of the big guns.

The belly plate, as on merely human panzers, was thinner.

"Slide in another," Cabrillo said, "and begin to wedge off the belly plate."

The belly plate was open, and proteinprint circuit boards lay scattered and dripping around the cooler.

Then the great predator was on its back, a glimpse of gray belly plates and folded legs, then gone as the boat shot past.

I advance, blowing the hillcrest in front of me so that I do not expose my belly plates by lifting over it.