Highwaymen Robbers and Rogues Author:Jennifer Roberson The dangerous figure on the road at night...the dashing and romantic gentleman-thief...the loner on the run for a crime he didn't commit...the righteous rebel who rises from obscurity to help the less fortunate--these "highwaymen" are some of the most beloved and universal of archetypal heroes--or anti-heroes--that we know. Literature and media ... more »both abound with light-fingered gentry and artful dodgers, footpads, desperados, and other dashing, dangerous, and fascinating miscreants.
Jennifer Roberson, Melanie Rawn, Dennis McKiernan, and their authorial band of conspirators have gathered here to present you with twenty-three original stories of these right-minded or wrong-headed knights of the road. Nut the roads their creations take are vastly divergent: from tales of classic bandits such as Robin Hood, to a hacker plying his lawless trade on the information superhighway, to a supernatural highwayman who cares nothing for money, they span the ironic and the bizarre, the comedic and the tragic, the science fictional, historical, romantic, and fantastic. So board our coach if you dare, and confront the many faces of Highwaymen: Robbers and Rogues.« less