I know I've read Triton because I remember the sex changes. But I was maybe about 20 at the time and didn't have the intellectual background to make sense of the book. I've put it towards the front of my mental "to re-read" list.

It may be that these books appeal only to those people like me who find critical theory entertaining

I'll admit that I often have trouble reading Delany. I do find critical theory entertaining, but I also find Delany's refusal to provide unfractured narratives frustrating. I get why he doesn't, and I can see the ideological basis of my own investment in narrative, and yet . . .