Something about the barbarous settler from Baleyworld intrigued Madam Gladia Solaria, perhaps because both he and his planet were named after Elijah Baley, the short-lived Earthman who had been her lover two centuries before But the robots Daneel and Giskard knew more they too remembered Elijah Baley and now they must prevent his old enemies from plunging the galaxy into war - if the First Law of Robotics will let them