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>It was certainly trouble. Still, there wasn't anyone who would resent that trouble more.</p>

<p>Chen Mu hadn't imagined that the breakthrough with his perception would come so soon; so soon that he was entirely unprepared. The One Breath perceptual training method's results far exceeded his expectations. The distance between level six and level seven perception was so far way for countless people.</p>

Trouble