The Card Apprentice

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.

Fang Xiang · Sci-fi

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611 Chs

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Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The card master who made cards needed to act at the same time as the maintenance person. In general, very few ordinary cards could be taken in for repair, since it was very easy to reduce that card's performance while it. The costs were also very high. But if it was a rare and valuable card, it was quite possible that one might be able to afford one without there being any market for it; there would be no place to go if one wanted to buy it. If it were damaged, one would have to take it in for repair.

Chen Mu's perception was very low. That card master that one year had never taught him how to train his perception. Although specialized training materials were well defined, and Chen Mu had started training early-on according to the prescribed methods, his results up to then had been quite meager.

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