There are some writers whose style prevents me from immersion in the story, Samuel R. Delany is just such an author. Clearly he's a man with a great imagination, but his prose style is confounding to me. Just his dialogue scenes are enough to shut down my imagination. Three characters will be chatting, and none of their lines will have any attribution. That's great every once in a while, but that is this author's M.O. See also Babel-17.