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 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