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

Cheng Ying gritted her teeth, swiped her room card, and entered the flight training space.

She was very curious to look at all the facilities in the space, never having used such a high-grade training space. If the points were exchanged for Oudi, then the standard fee would exceed that for any training space she had ever used.

Of course, it was very advanced! She very excitedly went over to the training room's control screen, on which was a list of all the rich kinds of training, which were far more than any space that she had ever used.

Cheng Ying found a string of numbers on the screen. At the top were the most recent, from only ten minutes earlier. Very clearly those were the data from the one who was just there, which hadn't been cleared.

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