Life of Pi Yan, 'Life of Pi' is told from two alternating points of view, the main character Pi in a flashback and Yann Martel himself, who is the "visiting writer" (Martel 101) interviewing Pi many years after the tiger in the boat story. This technique of the intrusive narrator adds the documentary realism to the book, setting up, like a musical counter-point, the myth-making, unreliable narrator, Pi. The reader is left to ponder at the end whether Pi's story is an allegory of another set of parallel events. The novel is a work of fiction set in the summer of 1977 that
The Man Who Came Early society which he did not gain in life. Steven H Silver has described the story as "a response to" L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall", while Jo Walton states that it is an outright rejection of de Camp. "Black Gate" considers it "first rate", while Paul A. Carter states that, as a "tale of the modern man displaced in time to a harsh and unforgiving environment which dooms him", it is "more sophisticated" than Nat Schachner's "Master Gerard of Cambray". The Man Who Came Early "The Man Who Came Early" is a science fiction short story by Danish-American author