Johnny Mnemonic

This edition gathers William Gibson's screenplay together with the short story it grew out of. Gibson, who also wrote Neuromancer, adapted the tale for a film later released with Keanu Reeves in the lead.

The protagonist, Johnny, works in a near-future world as a smuggler of illicit information. He carries hardware implanted in his skull, and he has a single day, twenty-four hours, to finish a job he cannot refuse.

Readers of the original story will find the screenplay offers a different version of the same material, so the book works both as the source text and as a look at how the narrative was reshaped for the screen.