This book is about a Spacer woman, Gladia, born in Solaria and later forced to move to planet Aurora. She had an Earth man lover called Elijah Baley. She was more or less informally adopted by an Auroran statesman called Fastolfe.
The universe was divided into territory settled by Spacers and Settlers. Both Spacers and Settlers descended from Earth man. Spacers left Earth centuries ago and evolved into a long living species. Settlers were recent space immigrants. Spacer worlds are old and developed. They depend on robots. Settler worlds are new and crude. Settlers do not use robots.
This book is a representative work in science fiction like Dallas as in soap opera. Gladia lived in isolation for the first 30 years of her life on her birth planet. After her first husband was murdered, she was forced to leave her first estate. She remarried in her adopted planet, had a son and a daughter and lived for about two hundred years. As she was bored by a life that was too long, she was more or less told by someone in her government to go back to her birth planet with the 7th generation descendant of Elijah Baley.
There she was plunged into a series of challenges that led her to become a heroine on Earth. The ending is kind of unexpected. Isaac Asimov is truly a master of science fiction!
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