From:	Peter Andersen <petera@***.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Actually
Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 1994 19:42:41 -0700

On Mon, 11 Apr 1994, Joshua James Harrison wrote:

> On Apr 10, 6:31pm, Jai Tao wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Actually
> > On Sun, 10 Apr 1994, Can I play with madness wrote:
> >
> > > Dodger, Piers Anthony wrote Total Recall as I
> > > remember it. Hmm. Maybe I'm wrong, but
> > > I just bought the hard back for $4 last
> > > summer.(clearance sales ;) Maybe it
> > > was a novelisation of the movie, but nothing
> > > on the book said so.
> >
> > Yup, Piers Anthony wrote it. Sorry to be saying so little in a
> > message, but as a fan of his work I thought I'd confirm this for ya.
>
> Yes, Piers DID write "Totall Recall"... however, the original idea was from
a
> short story by Phillip K. Dick entitled "We can remember it for you
> wholesale". There are too many similarities between the two to ignore. The
> novel by Piers is basically a novelization of the script, written about the
> same time the movie was going into production.
>

The first edition copy of "Total Recall" by Piers Anthony I have sports
a publish date of 1978. There was a reprint of the book that showed up
on the market about the same time as the movie...