Oath of the Renunciates Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley On the chilly world of Darkover, where women are kept in subservience to their men, only the Renunciates of the ComhiLatzii-known popularly as the Free Amazons-escape subjection. Sworn to loyalty only to their sisterhood and rejecting the domination of men, they declare their independence by their manlike attire and close-cropped hair, and maint... more »ain it with the fighting talents by which many of them earn their livelihood as mercenaries. Of all Darkovan women, only Amazons can travel and act entirely as they please.« less