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Where Were You Last Pluterday?
Mass Market Paperback, Daw Collectors #51 (UQ1051), 159 pages
Published
April 1973
by DAW
(first published 1968)
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I read this book when I was really into sci-fi.
Let me just say, this book is hardly sc-fi. It is something else. Something wonderful.
Like Vonnegut, Herk pokes fun at the very genre within which he writes. THe future scenarios are completely unbelievable. The "science" is anything but scientific.
THough none of that matters as it is clear that this is the author's intent. And he succeeds in creating a funny and thoughtful world where anything can happen, including clandestine meetings of rich peop...more
Let me just say, this book is hardly sc-fi. It is something else. Something wonderful.
Like Vonnegut, Herk pokes fun at the very genre within which he writes. THe future scenarios are completely unbelievable. The "science" is anything but scientific.
THough none of that matters as it is clear that this is the author's intent. And he succeeds in creating a funny and thoughtful world where anything can happen, including clandestine meetings of rich peop...more
This novel (read by me in the original language, being Dutch), has its basis in a unique concept of our times, saving as much time as possible. You better read the novel to know what to do with your saved time...
As far as I know this is the one and only Science Fiction novel by Paul van Herck. Brilliant in its idea, but perhaps it did drain the author of other ideas on this topic.
Recomended for lovers of somewhat outlier kind of "classic" Sciance Fiction
I read this a long time ago..and it's one of the really wierd reads of all time, but good wierd. I think (if you can find it) you'll find a fun read (but wierd, really really wierd.)
This book by Belgian writer Paul van Herck won in its original 1968 Dutch version
"Sam, of de Pluterdag"
the 1972 price for the Best Belgian Science Fiction novel at the EuroCon in Triëst, Italy. It has been translated into English (1973); Spanish (1975); Swedish (1976); French (1977); German (1981) and Hungarian (1991), so becoming the best translated Science Fiction novel out of Dutch speaking countries. You can read about it on
wikipedia
or find out about its published versions on
isfdb
bit of fun though i do think that i may have issues with too much humour in sci fi
Really fun to read.
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Paul van Herck was a Flemish writer.
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