by Paul van Herck – 1968

In the future, the rich can save time by doing things like taking a plane instead of a boat. If they save up enough time, they get an entire extra day of the week, called Pluterday. Regular Joes don’t even know about this extra day.

When a poor boy meets the girl of his dreams, she tells him to meet her on Pluterday, and, of course, he can’t make it. But he’s not going to let a thing like time get in his way.

This funny, social satire was originally released in Dutch in 1968 as Sam, of de Pluterdag, and ended up winning first prize at the European Science Fiction Convention.