Max and the Cats number of zoo animals caged in the hold—but after being rescued and making a life for himself in Brazil continues to find his German past impossible to escape. The novel came to widespread public attention in 2002 when Canadian writer Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for "Life of Pi". Martel's novel is about a boy, Pi, who finds himself trapped on a boat with a tiger after the ship he and his family are sailing on sinks. The family were zookeepers, and the animals they were transporting in the hold sink with the rest of the ship, except
The Pi Man insane delusions". David N. Samuelson, writing in "Science Fiction Studies", analyzed the story as hard science fiction, and observed that it is based on "mathematical oddities" and "lacks a clear empirical base". The Pi Man "The Pi Man" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester. It was first published in "Fantasy and Science Fiction", in 1959. Bester subsequently revised it extensively for his 1976 collection "Star Light, Star Bright", changing the characters' names, "develop(ing) minor scenes", modifying the typographical "word pictures", and deleting several "stale references to beatnik culture". Peter Marko's superhuman abilities of pattern recognition