
Stardust
Neil Gaiman · 1999
A young man crosses a wall into Faerie to retrieve a fallen star for his love, then discovers the star is a woman with her own desires. Gaiman's most purely romantic fantasy and his most elegant prose achievement, an homage to Hope Mirrlees, Lord Dunsany, and E. Nesbit.
Science Fiction & Fantasy · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.