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

<p>The Snowflake Card Artisan Team was famous all over the world. It was one of the three big card artisan teams in the Heavenly Drum Village District, founded more than 50 years prior, and it was a truly well-established card artisan team. Everyone who had served as its captain was a very influential person. The captain at that time, Mobley, was a well-known ace throughout the federation.</p>

<p>The Snowflake Card Artisan Team had been staying low-key those last few years and didn't have a brilliant or prominent fighting record. But they had completed 95 percent of their commissions successfully, which put them at the head of the card artisan teams in the Heavenly Drum Village District.</p>

Collaboration