# Andrew Young — Short Fiction character guide

> Andrew Young in Short Fiction by Clifford D. Simak.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Young

**First appearance:** 0000-hellhounds-of-the-cosmos

## Snapshot

A tall, vigorous man worn thin by despair, Andrew Young remembers a shining happiness from boyhood and now fears the adult mind that drove it away.

## Who they are

Young moves through council chambers and flagstone patios as a man at odds with his own species, bitter at Chairman Riggs and the slow machinery of human problem-solving. He carries a private grief: the memory of a bluebird-bright joy he held as a boy and lost the moment he began to think like a human being. That remembered thing, which he never had words for, becomes the emotional engine of his arc, pushing him toward a search across six thousand years for something he never understood.

## In the story

### [Second Childhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/chapters/second-childhood)

Petitions the immortality commission for permission to die, expressing profound weariness and loneliness after nearly six thousand years of life.

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