This text entitled Cables is a scientific fiction. It is deliberately short as certain philosophical tales could be, descriptions of a chaotic world written in an ironic and joyful tone. In fact, this story maintains a distance from dystopian novels. He offers an optimistic vision because he captures what can be creative in chaos. It is not part of science fiction because it does not anticipate a future world. He only produces fiction from conjunctions: scientific developments, their attempts, their results and certain contemporary events whose impacts are powerful. Also, Cables has the ambition to be part of a literary vein that can be that of scientific fiction. It also prefigures the writing of other texts of the genre.
Cables recounts the tribulations of an engineer, captain of a cable ship forced to urgently repair the break in an underwater optical fiber forcing several countries to no longer be supplied by the internet, this in the context of health confinement , even war.
