Coincidentally, another quote from Clarke opens my column this month, on a similar theme.

“It seems to me that there is room—one might even say a long unfelt want—
for what might be called the ‘tall’ science-fiction story.
By this I mean stories that are intentionally unbelievable:
not, as is too often the case, unintentionally so.”
– Arthur C. Clarke, preface, Tales from the White Hart

The column should be posted tomorrow at the top of this page
http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=randall_hayes&article=_index