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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.
Eleanor Arnason
Octavia Butler
Moyra Caldecott
Jaygee Carr
Joy Chant
Suzy McKee Charnas
C. J. Cherryh
Jo Clayton
Candas Jane Dorsey
Diane Duane
Phyllis Eisenstein
Cynthia Felice
Sheila Finch
Sally Gearhart
Mary Gentle
Dian Girard
Eileen Gunn
Monica Hughes
Diana Wynne Jones
Gwyneth Jones
Leigh Kennedy
Lee Killough
Nancy Kress
Katherine Kurtz
Tanith Lee
Megan Lindholm (AKA Robin Hobb)
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Phillipa Maddern
Ardath Mayhar
Vonda McIntyre
Patricia A. McKillip
Janet Morris
Pat Murphy
Sam Nicholson (AKA Shirley Nikolaisen)
Rachel Pollack
Marta Randall
Anne Rice
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Pamela Sargent
Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Susan Shwartz
Nancy Springer
Lisa Tuttle
Joan Vinge
Élisabeth Vonarburg
Cherry Wilder
Connie Willis
I will probably rewatch the TV version to compare with the radio series when it comes out.
I agree that Peter Capaldi had already won an Oscar (though as a director in a less prominent category) by 1996, so was not exactly obscure! And I am not at all suggesting that the 1996 cast were second-rate. But I think you must agree that Benedict Cumberbatch in 2013 is ever so slightly ahead of Peter Capaldi in 1996; let alone James Macavoy/Gary Bakewell, Natalie Dormer/Laura Fraser, etc etc. It may well be cheaper to assemble those forces for audio, but I doubt that a 1996 audio version would have attracted a cast equivalent to the 2013 audio, any more than the 1996 TV version did.