The Shattered Chain
Books | Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Marion Zimmer Bradley
"The major thread and pattern concerns the role of women. While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattel ... Yet there are the strange bands of pledged women known as the Free Amazons, equal to men and outside the laws that keep the rest of their sex subservient. And it is the Free Amazons who provide the key to ... the Terran-Darkover dilemma."--Cover, page four, paperback edition.
