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>Be a science fiction writer
>Write pulpy SciFi
>Be nominated for Hugo Awards
>Reference other SciFi works
>Your only readers are hipsters in their late 20s

>> No.668979

you realize the more you use the word "hipster" the more you distance yourself from an identifiable cultural object of which you are part, and in doing so, you delve further into a simulated self-referential framework that makes you more of a douche than anyone actively participating in the culture?

>> No.668987

You don't know what pulp even means

>> No.668994

I'm 18 and where Old Navy jeans with a 3 dollar t shirt every day.

Am I a hipster in my late 20s?

>> No.668997

>>668994
> where

no, you are just an illiterate hillbilly.

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>>668979

>> No.669009

>>668994

Dressing poorly is one of the hallmarks of hipsterdom

>> No.669026

>>668968

0/10

>> No.670642

Late 20s? I imagined most of his readers are late teens early 20s.

>Write pulpy SciFi

Redundant statement.

>> No.670647

Everyone loves Kurt Vonnegut

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>>668979

>> No.670657

Vonnegut: Anthropology Student
Bellow: Anthropology Student

Depressive americanized deutschcunt
Neurotic womanizing pimp

Bellow seems too anti-counterKulcher to appeal to hipsters, but the anthropology connect makes me wonder

>> No.670735

>>670657
I haven't ever read any Bellow, but I just bought Herzog and I'm gonna read it this summer.

>> No.670835

If his only readers were hipsters in their 20s, then his work wouldn't be canonized.

>> No.670842

Vonnegut is excellent. He is a basis for a love of contemporary fiction. If he opens the door for people, then I am glad he wrote what he did, how he did.

I just appreciate that people care enough to read. :]

>> No.670843

>>670835
Uh dude. Hipsters are the people who make the canon. Lol didn't you know?

>> No.670855

I've never seen anyone in their 30s or over reading Vonnegut, so this must be true.

>> No.670860

>>670855
my parents have like a 20 year-old copy of Cat's Cradle, so I assume they've read it since.

>> No.670864

hey OP what about people who read his stuff before hipsters walked the earth?

>> No.670865

My dad read Slaughterhouse-Five recently and he's pretty well beyond his twenties

>> No.670866

Didn't Vonnegut pretty strongly resist the label of science fiction? I thought I read/heard that somewhere.

>> No.670878

>>670866

Just because that's what he wanted doesn't make it so.

>> No.670950

Vonnegut wrote science fiction whether he wanted to admit it or not. Except he wasn't about telling a story, he was about deconstructing the story and editorializing and having bad drawings in his books. Overrated in my opinion but he had some interesting stuff to say.