 He also promoted the ideas that cryptozoological creatures such as Bigfoot are real and that aliens intervened in human development.Pye's first book "That Prosser Kid" (1977), a fictional account of college football, was said to have "achieved considerable recognition" by the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, and was called "lively but unoriginal" by "The Boston Globe".It received negative reviews in "The New York Times Book Review" and the "Los Angeles Times".