Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?In culture and scholarship, science fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of "high intensity realism" capable of representing non imaginary objects that elude more traditional, "realist" modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and