An Andersonian technique is to appeal to at least three of the senses in a descriptive passage so how does the following passage, set in the Rustumite lowlands, grab us?
"The air hung windless, hot and heavy. It was full of odors, pungent, sweet, rank, bitter, none recalling home. Sounds came loud - a background of trills, whispers, buzzes, rustles, purling water; footfalls..." (p. 29)
We notice:
windlessness instead of Anderson's usual wind;
heat, odours and sounds - indeed three;
furthermore, an overload especially of the second and third;
"home" is not Earth but the colonized High America plateau above the permanent cloud cover, effectively a different ecology.
We know that all of these sensations will be having a very unpleasant effect on Danny Coffin who has never recovered from a terrifying experience in the lowlands when he was young although we also expect that this story will be a turning point. Something significant usually happens or changes in a short story. In Anderson's "Rescue on Avalon," Jack Birnham overcomes his antipathy to Ythrians. See Reconciliations.
See also The Rustumite Lowlands.