Jules Vernes work, which is contemporary with the birth of the media culture, is carried by a wave of imagination enthusiastic for the world of communications. Witness the character of the reporter, as well as the often-original fictional devices used by Verne, such as the delegation of narrative voice to a fictitious journalist (Claudius Bombarnac). But the novelist is also interested in the possibilities of a world outside the media, as if through his novels the information society were fantasizing its negation. Thus the many scenes where communications break down : cut telegraph wire (Michael Strogoff Michel Strogoff), a shadow on a telescope ( From the Earth to the Moon ; De la Terre à la Lune), impassable geographical distance (The Mysterious Island ; L'Île mystérieuse). The era of printed communication has thus perhaps build itself up on a hybrid imagination, which tends both to proclaim the triumph of communication and to invent stories showing its limits.