Wait--is Damon Knight someone's name, or is it some kind of weird Nebula sci-fi title?

Oh come now, Michael Moorcock's closet must contain nothing but cloaks.
He's probably got cloaks for, like, eight different levels of brooding.
Shoes are good, though. Or perhaps a medallion, something sufficiently grand-masterish. Something with a Doctor Strange or Max Maven flair to it.

@Miranda Kali: A medallion that connects to a large belt buckle...it's like science, but from the future.

@Miranda Kali:
Oh I imagine him with a closet full of t-shirts that say "I became an aspect of the Eternal Champion -- Ask me how!"

@braak: both, of course.

What does it say about SFWA or about me that I almost invariably think that the Hugo nominations and winners display much better taste than those for the Nebula Awards?

@Mathmos: I...I don't know. What does it say?

@braak: Maybe that Mathmos is a SF populist and distrustful of shadowy back-room "committees".

I picture Michael Moorcock with a wardrobe consisting entirely of identical black car coats, but then I've always been more of a Jerry Cornelius man.

@Mathmos: Whatever it says, it's true for me too.

I find the Hugo winners hold up better over the years than the Nebulas.

@Miranda Kali: I did a reading with Michael Moorcock last year and had dinner with him afterwards. Don't really remember what he was wearing, but it wasn't a cloak. I think it was a collar shirt and jeans or something, sadly. But my memory is faulty, so I should check with my friend who was there.

@Evil Tortie's Mom: Actually, I usually enjoy both. But sometimes the Hugo winners are less a measure of goodness and more a measure of which writers have a bigger online fan club who can be whipped into a frenzy of voting.

@Charlie Jane Anders: Wasn't he wearing a shark's jaw around his shoulders?

@Annalee Newitz: If that was strictly true, ElRon woulda won.

Anyway, I was referring to the years BEFORE online; 50's-80's.

A lot of the Nebula Award winners date very badly b/c they have a style, plot, topic, or twist that was oh-so-trendy and in fashion when they were written -- but when you read them later, you cringe at how dated they are. Like looking at photos of people in the trendy clothes of years past.

Just an impression I've gotten from comparing anthologies around the house, my 40 yrs of reading the stuff, and my 27 years of semi-regular Worldcon attendance.

@Annalee Newitz: Seems to me that the Hugo nominees are more likely to include and reward substantial, well-written and interesting works than the Nebulas, which are sometimes awarded to what strike me as very pedestrian adventure stories. Recent examples of works that were inexplicably ignored in Nebula nominations but won Hugos are Spin by Robert Charles Wilson and Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.

@Mathmos: Well I am a huge fan of Vinge, and I'm glad he got a Hugo. But I don't think any of the Nebula winners this year could be classified as "adventure stories."

@Evil Tortie's Mom: Interesting -- you could be right. I'm not as familiar with the winners that are pre-1990s. In general, I am suspicious of committee awards because they do tend towards cronyism. But then audience choice awards tend towards popularity contests. Argh, I think I just prefer to read books based on reviews and recommendations rather than awards.

@Annalee Newitz: "But I don't think any of the Nebula winners this year could be classified as "adventure stories.""

Perhaps not, and not that I have anything against a good adventure story. I was trying to make a general point.

del Toro has a fascinating, visceral imagination. Of course, I also liked Hellboy 1 and there seems to be a general sentiment that it ruined a good comic, to which I had no attachment.

Apparently Rowling has ever won a Nebula before. About time.

Well, the Andre Norton award is only two years old, and as a writer of "young adult" fiction, she always had the deck stacked against her for winning best novel.

Although I knew that nothing could triumph over the trillion-dollar colossus of Harry Potter, I was disappointed that Flora Segunda didn't take home the Andre Norton. For my money, it's a thousand times more imaginative than Harry Potter, better written, and has more subtly evoked characters.