So they were funny, but not sci-fi?

Or was that an Alanis use of the word ironic? ;-)

Meh, weird categories are at times used; his Ashraf Bey books were for awhile classed and sold as 'crime', despite being set in an alternate history future version of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile, and him having a computer embedded into his head talking to him all the time...

I care not, it was a good book that I liked, I'd have bought it regardless of how it was filed.