Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour
Ender's Game (series) Ender's Game (series) The Ender's Game" series (often referred to as the Ender" saga and also the Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel of the same title. It currently consists of sixteen novels, thirteen short stories, 47 comic issues, an audioplay, and a film. The first two novels in the series, "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead", each won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and were among the most influential fiction novels of the