Thomas J. Ryan (author)
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For other persons named Thomas Ryan, see Thomas Ryan (disambiguation).
Thomas Joseph Ryan, born 1942, is a Canadian author.
Ryan moved into the USA and worked as a computer troubleshooter. Living in Garden Grove, California in 1977 he wrote his most known work, the science fiction novel The Adolescence of P-1. The story is one of the earliest fictional depictions of a computer virus and how it intelligently can spread through a computer network.
See discussion page on co-authorship for the Sanctuary book.
Books
- Thomas J. Ryan:The Adolescence of P-1 (1977) ISBN 0026065002, ISBN 0020248806, ISBN 0671559702
- Joseph H. Berke, Chandra Masoliver, Thomas J. Ryan: Sanctuary (1995) ISBN 1899209018

