The novel has been adapted several times into other media, including as the two-part German television film World on a Wire (Welt am Draht, 1973), by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "staying reasonably faithful to Galouye's book," as the film The Thirteenth Floor (1999) produced by Roland Emmerich and directed by Josef Rusnak, and as a play World of Wires (2012) directed by Jay Scheib.
