11 Facts About Elijah Baley

Elijah "Lije" Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Robot series.

Elijah Baley is further mentioned in passing in "Foundation and Earth" as a "Culture Hero".

Elijah Baley is a plainclothesman, a homicide detective in the New York City Police Department 3,000 years in the future.

Elijah Baley is a doleful character with a quick temper.

Elijah Baley has a strong sense of duty and loyalty and is very protective of his family and his status.

Elijah Baley's agoraphobia is an important personality characteristic and plot point in several of the novels in which he appears.

Elijah Baley 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.

Daneel's memory is notable as it covers an extremely elderly Elijah Baley bestowing his last words upon Daneel and reveals he perished mere moments after Daneel left his presence.

Elijah Baley's words have a profound impact on Daneel's behavior even many thousands of years on.

However, in The Robots of Dawn, Elijah Baley recalls his mother cajoling him to eat her chicken soup and telling him that even the Spacers did not have anything as good.

In later stories, it is revealed that Elijah Baley becomes a legendary hero for millennia.