UGH.
But like in the best way possible. Stefan Rudnicki's narration of Delany is just amazing! There's something about listening to the characters and the conversations that works for me even better than reading does, at least for Delany. Somehow, it's easier to go with the flow as he builds the ideas of the world and crafts that mishmash of space opera and post-structuralism that's basically his m.o.
Also, this book is in conversation with (and antedates) both Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and China Mieville's Embassytown (and other things, I imagine, but those two in particular came to mind) and I want to...idk, think more about science fiction that takes on the "soft" sciences.
But I stand by my UGH. This whole "rediscover the past greats of sf" thing is pretty fun.