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.