Ender's Game - Region 4 DVD - is used, and in "very good" condition. Light level scratching and marking is apparent on the disc. The case has numerous dents and scratches, and displays overall signs of general wear.

***The disc has been tested, and appears to work perfectly***

The item is exactly as pictured (I don't use stock photos). It will be placed directly in a padded envelope/mailer for shipping.

What you get (refer to pics)

• DVD disc
• Case
• Cover art

If it's not on the list, it's not included

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In the future, humanity has mastered interplanetary spaceflight and as they explore the galaxy, they encounter an insect-like alien race derogatorily named "buggers". After discovering a base on asteroid Eros, war breaks out between the humans and buggers. The humans achieve a narrow victory, but fearing future threats of a bugger invasion, create the International Fleet (I.F.) and train gifted children to become commanders at their orbiting Battle School.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is born a "Third": a rare exception to Earth's strict two-child policy, allowed by the government due to the promise shown by his two older siblings. The eldest, Peter, is a highly intelligent sociopath who sadistically bullies Ender, and tortures and kills small animals. His sister, Valentine, is more sympathetic towards him. The I.F. remove Ender's monitoring device when he is six years old, seemingly ending his chances of Battle School. He is bullied by a fellow student, Stilson, but Ender decides to pre-emptively attack him. Unknown to Ender, Stilson later dies from his wounds. I.F. Colonel Hyrum Graff visits Ender after hearing about the fight. Ender attests that by showing superiority now, he has prevented future struggle. Graff offers him a place in the Battle School.

Once at Battle School, Graff and the other leaders covertly work to keep Ender isolated from the other cadets. Ender finds solace in playing a simulated adventure game that involves killing a giant. The cadets participate in competitive war simulations in zero gravity, where Ender quickly masters the game with novel tactics and dominates his opponents. To further wear Ender down, he is promoted to command a new army composed of raw recruits, then pitted against multiple armies at once, but Ender's success continues. Ender's jealous ex-commander, Bonzo Madrid, draws him into a fight outside the simulation, and once again seeking to pre-emptively stop future conflicts, Ender uses excessive force. Like Stilson, Bonzo dies from his injuries and this fact is again hidden from Ender.

Meanwhile on Earth, Peter Wiggin uses a global communication system to post political essays under the pseudonym "Locke", hoping to establish himself as a respected orator and then as a powerful politician. Valentine, despite not trusting Peter, agrees to publish alongside him as the more radical "Demosthenes". Their essays are soon taken seriously by the government and influence Earth's politics. Though Graff is told their true identities, he recommends that it be kept a secret, because their writings are politically useful.

Ender, now ten years old, is promoted to Command School on Eros after a brief respite on Earth. After some preliminary battles in the simulator, he is introduced to Mazer Rackham, a hero from the bugger invasions who saw key patterns in their behaviour. Ender participates in space combat simulations created and controlled by Mazer. As the skirmishes become harder, he is joined by some of his friends from the Battle School as sub-commanders. Despite this, Ender becomes depressed by the battles, his isolation, and by the way Mazer treats him.

For his final test, under observation by I.F.'s commanders, Ender finds his fleet far outnumbered by bugger ships surrounding their homeworld. Hoping to earn himself expulsion from the school for his ruthlessness, he sacrifices his entire fleet to fire a Molecular Disruption Device at the planet. The Device completely destroys the planet and the surrounding bugger fleet. He is shocked to hear the I.F. commanders cheering in celebration. Mazer informs Ender that the "simulations" he has been fighting were real battles, directing human spacecraft against bugger fleets via an ansible's instantaneous communication, and that Ender has won the war. Ender becomes more depressed on learning this, realizing that he has committed genocide.

Ender spends several weeks isolated before recovering, and learns that once news of the buggers' homeworld destruction reached Earth, Earth's powers began fighting among themselves. Ender is prevented from returning home, where he would be exploited by Peter and other politicians to fulfill their own purposes. Instead, he remains on Eros, which becomes a launch point for colonization of former bugger planets. Valentine is one of the first colonists to arrive, and Ender decides to join her.

On a new planet, Ender becomes the colony's governor. As he explores the planet, he discovers a structure that matches the simulation of the giant game from Battle School, and inside finds the dormant egg of a bugger queen. The queen telepathically communicates to Ender that before the first war, they had assumed humans were a non-sentient race, because of their lack of collective consciousness, but realized their mistake too late. She has reached out to Ender to draw him here, and requests that he take the egg to a new planet for her babies to colonize and rebuild.

Ender takes the egg and, with information from the queen, writes The Hive Queen under the alias "Speaker for the Dead". Peter, now the leader of Earth and age 77 with a failing heart (due to relativistic space travel), recognizes Ender as the author of The Hive Queen. He asks Ender to write a book about him, which Ender titles The Hegemon. The combined works create a new type of funeral, adopted by many on Earth and its colonies, in which the Speaker for the Dead tells the whole and unapologetic story of the deceased. Ender and Valentine leave the colony and travel to many other worlds, looking for a safe place to establish the unborn Hive Queen.