And he’s probably better than most.
He opened American gods book with a great quote. He didn’t write it, and that’s the highlight of the stupid thing. Here it is:
A Kentuckian was once asked what he considered the boundaries of the United States. “The boundaries of our country, sir?” he replied.
“Why sir, on the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgment.”
-The American Joe Miller’s Jest Book (Robert Kempt)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43996/43996-h/43996-h.htm
Quoted in “A Treasury of American Folklore”, 1944, B.A. Botkin, Ed. Pg 276.
I’ve never thought of him as a ‘sci-fi’ writer; more of a ‘satirical fantasy’ sort of writer.