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The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany. I've been wanting to read Dunsany for a while. We'll see how it goes.

Dunsany's prose is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I recommend reading King of Elfland's daughter out loud, and in small doses at one time. It's not the sort of book that works so well to devour speedily with your eyes at one pop.

The Language of the Night, by Ursula le Guin. Critical commentary by a master of the art. Worth reading, if you can find it.

I have a copy, if other people want to borrow it at some point.

My impression of Tanith Lee is that pretty much everything she does is well written, though it may not always be what you feel like reading at the time. (Prose much like Dunsany's in that way -- very beautiful, very lush, can get too heavy if take in too much at once.)

And of course read Vernor Vinge if you haven't yet. Or really even if you have.