Fang Xiang

This is both a work of science fiction and an exploration of the meaning of life, love, literature and art. Brainpower is no longer the main ingredient for being human in this far distant future world.  Spirituality, physical balance, and diligence all come together as integrity for Chen Mu, the Card Apprentice.  The cards which Chen Mu masters in his own scrappy way, distill all the powers of the cosmos –  human and nonhuman –  into something that is not a book, not technology, and neither art nor magic, but is these and more.  Learn about these strange cards, which can embody everything you might imagine for the future of technology, but also a future beyond technology which promotes the best, and sometimes the worst, from mankind’s past.

The Card Apprentice

'Allah' Gong's bodyguard let out a sigh of relief in his mind. Those others were going to lose this time. He could face several dozens of that kind of slacker adversary alone, and it would still be relaxed and smooth. Yet what he hadn't thought of was that the final factor determining who would win that time lay with those two slackers.

Chen Mu was both a little excited and a little taken aback, since he could tell that this bout was going to be different from what had gone on before. That feeling of controlling his power from his core was especially sharp.

What was taking him aback was a different matter.

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