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".^[1]

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v t e Works by Alfred Bester
Novels	The Demolished Man (1953) Who He? (1953) The Stars My Destination (1956) The Computer Connection (1975) Golem¹⁰⁰ (1980) The Deceivers (1981) Tender Loving Rage (1991) Psychoshop (with Roger Zelazny) (1998)
Short stories	"Time Is the Traitor" (1953) "Star Light, Star Bright" (1953) "5,271,009" (1954) "Fondly Fahrenheit" (1954) "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (1958) "The Pi Man" (1959) "Something Up There Likes Me" (1973) "The Four-Hour Fugue" (1974)
Collections	Starburst (1958) The Dark Side of the Earth (1964) An Alfred Bester Omnibus (1968) Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976) The Light Fantastic Volume 1: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976) Star Light, Star Bright: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Volume 2 (1976) The Light Fantastic Volume 2: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976) Virtual Unrealities (1997) Redemolished (2000)
Nonfiction	The Life and Death of a Satellite (1966)

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