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Originally Posted by Pablo
The 13th floor was based on Daniel Galouye's 1964 book Simulacron-3.
I really liked this book, I'm enclosing the plot in SPOILER tags because I think it tells too much.
From Wikipedia:
Spoiler:
Simulacron 3 is the story of a virtual city (total environment simulator) for marketing research, developed by a scientist to reduce the need for opinion polls. The computer-generated city simulation is so well-programmed, that, although the inhabitants have their own consciousness, they are unaware, except for one, that they are only electronic impulses in a computer.
The simulator's lead scientist, Hannon Fuller, dies mysteriously, and a co-worker, Morton Lynch, vanishes. The protagonist, Douglas Hall, is with Lynch when he vanishes, and Hall subsequently struggles to suppress his inchoate madness. As time and events unwind, he progressively grasps that his own world is probably not "real" and might be only a computer-generated simulation.
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Interesting. I had no idea that it was based on a book. I'll have to see if I can find a copy sometime so I can compare the book and the movie.