Elijah Baley from the cover of The Caves of Steel. The Caves of Steel is a novel by Isaac Asimov. It is essentially a detective story, and illustrates an idea Asimov advocated that Science fiction

Elijah Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Robot series. Isaac Asimov (c January 2 1920 &ndash April 6 1992 ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as, was a Russian Isaac Asimov's Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of Short stories and Novels Short stories He is the main character of The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, and the short story "Mirror Image". The Caves of Steel is a novel by Isaac Asimov. It is essentially a detective story, and illustrates an idea Asimov advocated that Science fiction The Naked Sun is the second Novel in Isaac Asimov 's Robot series. The Robots of Dawn is a " Whodunit " Science fiction Novel by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983. Mirror Image is a Science fiction Short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in the May 1972 issue Analog Science Fiction and He is talked about heavily in Robots and Empire, which is set roughly twenty decades after his death. Robots and Empire is a 1985 Science fiction Novel written by Isaac Asimov.

Biography

He is a plainclothesman, a homicide detective on the New York City police force. The City of New York He is a doleful character with a quick temper. Like Sherlock Holmes, he is a pipe-smoker - a habit he fights against in "The Robots of Dawn". The Robots of Dawn is a " Whodunit " Science fiction Novel by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983. He has a strong sense of duty and loyalty and is very protective of his family and his status. His wife, Jezebel Baley, prefers to be called Jessie. Their son, Bentley, became a leader in the second wave of interplanetary space exploration. The following is a list of characters in Isaac Asimov 's Robot series.

Baley, like most human beings of his century, is strongly agoraphobic, as The Caves of Steel reveals that almost all natives of Earth of Baley's time spend all of their time from birth to death in immense domed cities (caves of steel) and rarely, if ever, travel to the outside surface. Agoraphobia is an Anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a Panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape Baley's agoraphobia is an important personality characteristic and plot point in several of the novels in which he appears. This somewhat mirrors Asimov's own personality, as he was a well known claustrophile (a person who preferred to be in closed spaces).

Asimov's novels are typically devoid of profanity. Consequently, Baley's favourite expletive is "Jehoshaphat!" which he says in times of great stress or excitement. The word expletive is currently used in three senses syntactic expletives, expletive attributives, and "bad language". See Josaphat for other meanings of the name Jehoshaphat or Jehosaphat or Josaphat or Yehoshafat ( was the successor of

In The Caves of Steel, he is called upon to help solve the murder of a Spacer. In Isaac Asimov 's Foundation / Empire / Robot series the Spacers were the first Humans to emigrate to space The Spacers assign him a robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, with whom he becomes lifelong friends. R Daneel Olivaw is a fictional Robot created by Isaac Asimov. He meets up with R. Daneel again in The Naked Sun, where again he is asked to investigate the murder of a Spacer, this time on the planet Solaria, making him the first Earthman to leave Earth since the first wave of colonization. In Isaac Asimov 's Foundation / Empire / Robot series the Spacers were the first Humans to emigrate to space Later, in the Robots of Dawn, he realizes R. Giskard's telepathic abilities long before anyone else does. R Giskard Reventlov is a fictional character in the Science fiction works of Isaac Asimov included in The Robots of Dawn and Giskard modifies Baley's mind to prevent him from being able to tell anyone.

In later stories, it is revealed that Elijah becomes a legendary hero for millennia. A reference to him can be found in Foundation and Earth. Foundation and Earth is a Science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation series and chronologically the last in

Appearance in other medias

In the 1964 British television adaptation of The Caves of Steel, Baley was played by Peter Cushing. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913—11 August 1994 was an English actor known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein In the 1988 Koday VCR game Isaac Asimov's Robots Bailey was played by Steven Rowe.