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 good and evil. This draws him into conflict, first with his secretary, and then with the FBI. "The Pi Man" was a finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "Kirkus Reviews" considered it to be a "chilling masterpiece", and John Hertz has lauded it as "coruscating, gripping, (and) strange". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" has posited that Marko's abilities were the basis for the similar abilities of the protagonist in Bester's 1981 novel "The Deceivers", while James Nicoll has noted that the story would work just as well if one assumes that Marko's "justifications for atrocity are