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

So Sue Lochiro could examine him more completely, Chen Mu had compressed his perception into an unimaginably tiny ball. Even though his control was a lot more powerful than before, the extremely compressed perception's sudden fluctuation made him nearly lose control.

That wasn't the first situation where Chen Mu had encountered a loss of perceptual control, so he didn't get flustered. In truth, he hadn't gone through any systematic study about how to control perception. What he could do was partly from his conjecture according to the principles elaborated in the mysterious card, and the rest was from his own explorations.

The perceptual spring coil's composition was something he'd thought up out of thin air. So, he wouldn't be surprised if some strange situation appeared with his perception.

A Mishap