Elijah Baley from the cover of The Caves of Steel.

Elijah Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Robot series. He is a plainclothesman, a homicide detective on the New York City police force. He is a doleful character with a quick temper. 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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Caves of Steel is a book by Isaac Asimov. ... Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), IPA: , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов) was a Russian-born American Jewish author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... Isaac Asimovs Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Bentley Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimovs Robot series. ...

He is the main character of The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, and the short story "Mirror Image". He is talked about heavily in Robots and Empire, which is set roughly twenty decades after his death. The Caves of Steel is a book by Isaac Asimov. ... The Naked Sun is the second novel in Isaac Asimovs 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 Fact, and collected in The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). ... Robots and Empire is a 1985 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. ...

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. The word expletive comes from the Latin verb explere, meaning to fill, via expletivus, filling out. It was introduced into English in the seventeenth century to refer to various kinds of padding -- the padding... In the Bible, Jehoshaphat or Josaphat or Yehoshafat (יְהוֹשָׁפָט The LORD is judge, Standard Hebrew Yəhošafat, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhôšāp̄āṭ) was the son and successor of Asa, king of...

In the 1964 British television adaptation of The Caves of Steel, Baley was played by Peter Cushing. In the 1988 Koday VCR game Isaac Asimov's Robots Bailey was played by Steven Rowe. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ...

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. 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. Agoraphobia is a form of anxiety disorder. ...

Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel from "Isaac Asimov's Robots" VCR Game

In The Caves of Steel, he is called to help solve the murder of a Spacer. The Spacers assign to him a robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, with whom he becomes life-long friends. 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. Later, in the Robots of Dawn, he realizes R. Giskard's telepathic abilities long before anyone else does. Giskard modifies Baley's mind to prevent him from being able to tell anyone. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... In Isaac Asimovs Foundation/Empire/Robot series, the Spacers were the first humans to emigrate to space. ... R. Daneel Olivaw is a fictional robot created by Isaac Asimov. ... In Isaac Asimovs Foundation/Empire/Robot series, the Spacers were the first humans to emigrate to space. ... R. Giskard Reventlov is a fictional character in the science fiction works of Isaac Asimov included in The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire. ...