Tron

I was 18 in 1982, when this book was published, and it would be five years before I would first own a computer. The university where I was a student had some, of course. Mainframes, in a special building. I would guess that they had less processing power than my phone today. We learnt Basic and Fortran. That is the world in which Tron is set, and it is remarkable that even then people were scared of AI and that computers would take over the world. Brian Daley portrays this as a physical battle inside the computer itself, with remarkable success. The film on which this is based was rubbish (and not just due to the technical limitations of the 80s) but this book did a much better job.