Italicize the authors you've heard of before reading this list of authors, bold the ones you've read at least one work by, underline the ones of whose work you own at least one example of.
Please feel free to repost with your own favorite female SF authors included!
If you've ever eaten broccoli while pretending it was a tree and you were a dinosaur, repost this in your journal. Then see how many of your friends are just as awesome as you are.
If you have heard the song put it in Italics. If you have sung along to it in public (or at least the chorus) put it in Underline. If you have sung it (in public, all the words, with people looking at you) put it in Bold