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

Daniel was patrolling in the air above Eastern Shang-Wei City. Ever since big brother Yu was killed, he'd been doing it every day. He knew that it wasn't doing any good, but he needed to do something, something for brother Yu. He had been cultivated by brother Yu, and all of his skills and his present position were because he'd been boosted by brother Yu.

Big brother Yu felt closer to him than his own brother, such that his only aspiration then was to avenge him. Nothing else mattered, not girls and not money.

In the evening's vast darkness, he was looking down at the light coming from advertisements, which stitched some splendid brilliance through the dark city. The wild mountain range far away lay like a huge beast, silently watching them.

Daniel really knew how to use his jet-stream card and was able to fly around intuitively at high speed.

A Bitter Battle