It’s the dog days of summer and wherever you go, it is a scene to be seen. Be it at the beach where the summer breeze is warm or in the mountains where the rustle of leaves announce the wind, looking cool is not just wearing the right clothes. Accessories matter!
And the best accessory this season – the Mykita Lite Collection sunglasses. Add a touch of intellectual cool with “The Rare Earth Exchange” by Bernard Besson and “On” by Jon Puckridge, the new voices in sci-fi. These books are destined to be the new classics.
EYEWEAR
The MYKITA LITE collection introduces a new generation of mixed material models that combine the warmth of acetate with the effortless mechanics of the iconic stainless steel MYKITA hinge construction.
Acetates in dark amber or tortoiseshell colourways dominate in new arrivals ALFUR and ALUKI, whereas SAMU (pictured above) is made primarily of stainless steel – warm acetate appears only on the elements touching the skin.
All models demonstrate an understated, noble aesthetic that announces itself over time.
A team of freelance spies gets caught up in a web of corruption and terrorism in a struggle to control rare minerals key to today’s technology. Panic strikes at the highest levels of the French government when the former president is found hanging from the rafters in his home right after a terrorist attack at the airport. Is it suicide or assassination? Freelance operative John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained partner Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick Luc must find out what he was hiding. Quickly, the investigation turns into a globe-spanning confrontation in a world of high-frequency trading where manipulation and corruption reign. Larivière races against the clock to find out who is pulling the strings.
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ON
It’s BLADE RUNNER meets Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WINDUP GIRL
OneWorld is a planet orbited by thousands of satellite cities, and home to 23 billion humans. A place where governments, police forces and law courts compete for business within a wholly privatised system; where murder, rape and torture are merely extra items on your insurance policy; where a corporation owns the license for time; and where scientific fact has been replaced by ‘consumer information’. In OneWorld, every product wirelessly links to the ‘grID’, and people spend most of their scheduled ‘waketime’ moving through various overlapping realities via their grID visors.
But now the precarious balance of OneWorld is tipping as the largest of the global corporations launches the next phase of networking: One Network, or ‘ON’. By the time Youren Cartouche, a copywriter working on the advertising campaign for ON, and Constantin Zann, an advanced bio-mechanical detective investigating the strange murder of a human girl, both uncover the truth, they will be fighting for their very existence within a reality disintegrating around them.
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