More inspiration and less shiny plastic would improve matters.
The Heechee skin looks as though it were carved out of shiny plastic.
He reached past her and closed the body bag, his long white fingers elegantly graceful against the shiny black plastic.
But also, Scott could picture the image of a three-dimensional spring, thick and red, looking like it was made out of shiny plastic.
There was also a credit cube, shiny translucent plastic, with a gold bar stamped across the corner.
They were shiny metal or hard plastic, flat on one end and cone-shaped on the other.
Three walls are smooth shiny plastic, the fourth, an exterior wall, is bare rough concrete block.
They made them tough in those days, not like now when all the stuff that looks like metal is really just shiny plastic.
The top portion of the system is shiny plastic, prone to fingerprints.
Coats are roomy in shiny white plastic or bright primary colors.