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Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story

10 best books like Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story (William Gibson): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, Adventures in the Screen Trade, The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Press Enter, Sailing to Byzantium, The Variable Man and Other Stories, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall, The Traveler, The Unveiling

Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0964853906
Included are these stories:

"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.

"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
Adventures in the Screen Trade
AuthorWilliam Goldman
ISBN0446391174
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes...
The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
AuthorRudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
Press Enter
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN1568652798
This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.

Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
Sailing to Byzantium
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0743487117
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled... In his illustrious forty-five year career as a novelist and author of short fiction, Robert Silverberg has belonged in the company of the best writers...
The Variable Man and Other Stories
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN0722129629
Billed as a complete novel along with a selection of shorts, The Variable Man itself is more of a novella these days. A man is pulled accidentally from his own time into the 22nd century where his very existence is a variable factor that the computers planning the war against Centarus can't plan for.

This...
Christmas in the Trenches
AuthorJohn McCutcheon
ISBN1561453749
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).

What’s...
With Morning Comes Mistfall
AuthorGeorge R.R. Martin
This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
The Traveler
AuthorDaren Simkin
ISBN0374116393
Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life—but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for...
The Unveiling
AuthorStefan Alford
ISBN9781105575
Convincingly blending historical fact with fiction, this centuries spanning adventure will have you questioning the truth about reincarnation. In 533 an ecumenical council ordered by the Roman emperor made it a crime of heresy to continue to teach or believe in reincarnation. Some theologians...
Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange
AuthorStanley Kubrick
ISBN1901680479
The screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.

This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,” selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released...
Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz
AuthorRon Jeremy
Dear Reader,

You probably think you already know me because you've seen one of my two thousand porn movies, or maybe you caught me on VH1's The Surreal Life, or rented my movie Pornstar, or heard me rapping in someone's music video. . . . Yeah, that's me. But believe it or not, that's not the real...
How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion
AuthorJudah Friedlander
I rarely post reviews of books on goodreads because, well I dont really think anyone cares what I thought of any particular book so I generally give the book its credited score in stars and move on. This time, however, I feel rather compelled to warn anyone considering the thought of consuming this "book"...
Doctor Who: Cat's Cradle-Witch Mark
AuthorAndrew Hunt
ISBN0426203682
'Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die.'
          A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.
          A...
Lolita: The Screenplay
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0679772553
As it charts the hypnotized progress of Humbert Humbert, a hypercivilized and amoral European emigre, into the orbit of a treacherously lovely and utterly unimpressionable preteen, Lolita: A Screenplay gleefully demolishes a host of stereotypes - sexual, moral, and aesthetic. Not least among...
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