G's Future: The Journey, Part 2

By Don Viecelli

G's Future - The Journey, Part 2 is the continuing story about G, the first machine robot with Artificial Intelligence. G passed the Alan M. Turing Test and won the Gold Medal Prize at the Loebner Prize Contest in Chicago that proved he was capable of thinking like a human. Afterwards, G became an astronaut for NASA and was sent on the first deep space interstellar journey.
G possesses what is known in humans as the ‘general intelligence factor’, or the ability to exhibit high level intelligence across all subject matter. G is sentient and self-aware and can process information much faster than a human brain. He was created by Julian Thornway, a genius and the great grandfather of Timothy Thornway who is now thirty years old and who also became an astronaut for NASA.
G was sent into space to explore the nearest star systems and find exoplanets in the “habitable zone” capable of supporting human life. The second mission was to search for other intelligent life in the universe. He was joined fifteen years later by a second, faster spaceship and reaches Proxima Centauri 4.2 light-years from Earth ahead of schedule. G discovers a large alien space station in orbit around the star. The space station is inhabited by an alien AI from a distance solar system. The AI has been waiting patiently for humans to arrive. With this discovery, G realizes his journey has just begun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Don Viecelli
• Release date: Feb 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310797477

Don Viecelli

The author lives in Arlington Heights, IL with his family. He attended Michigan State University and earned his MBA at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Illinois. He recently retired as a product marketing professional in the high tech industry and is now pursuing a writing career. He has always enjoyed science fiction and plans to continue writing imaginative novels that explore the future boundaries of real science. He writes science fiction book reviews on popular authors and lists them on Goodreads.com. He can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and he has his own Website for science fiction readers. He is also a Member of the Writers of SciFi, a group of Indie Science Fiction writers and authors associated with BooksGoSocial. Drop him a line when you find a story you like.

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G’s Future -

The Journey, Part 2

A Science Fiction Novelette

by

Don Viecelli

Copyright © 2014 by Don Viecelli

Smashwords Edition

Description

G’s Future – The Journey, Part 2 is the continuing story about G, the first machine robot with Artificial Intelligence. G passed the Alan M. Turing Test and won the Gold Medal Prize at the Loebner Prize Contest in Chicago that proved he was capable of thinking like a human. Afterwards, G became an astronaut for NASA and was sent on the first deep space interstellar journey.

G possesses what is known in humans as the ‘general intelligence factor’, or the ability to exhibit high level intelligence across all subject matter. G is sentient and self-aware and can process information much faster than a human brain. He was created by Julian Thornway, a genius and the great grandfather of Timothy Thornway who is now thirty years old and who also became an astronaut for NASA.

G was sent into space to explore the nearest star systems and find exoplanets in the habitable zone capable of supporting human life. The second mission was to search for other intelligent life in the universe. He was joined fifteen years later by a second, faster spaceship and reaches Proxima Centauri 4.2 light-years from Earth ahead of schedule. G discovers a large alien space station in orbit around the star. The space station is inhabited by an alien AI from a distance solar system. The AI has been waiting patiently for humans to arrive. With this discovery, G realizes his journey has just begun.

Copyright Page

G’s Future – The Journey, Part 2

Copyright © 2014 by Donald E. Viecelli

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Cover image is the copyrighted image of NASA/JPL - Caltech (Artist’s conception of a Red Dwarf star with three planets).

This is a work of science fiction. All the characters, names, incidents, places and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any errors in editing, formatting, plot or structure will be corrected in the next revision.

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Smashwords ISBN 9781310797477

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Published by Don Viecelli at Smashwords.

First release April 2014.

Revision 4 released September 2020.

Novelette length: approximately 15,886 words.

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Dedication

To the next generation of science fiction readers and writers.

Table Of Contents

Description

Copyright Page

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Acknowledgement

Profile Page

Chapter 1

Proxima Centauri

Something did not seem right. G looked at Timothy and saw him smiling. Timothy’s friends, Johnny and Amy, were splashing water on each other in the lake. They were all at Timothy’s Great Grandfather Julian Thornway’s estate on Lake Michigan. It was summer; the weather warm and sunny. The water felt cool and wet on G’s hands. He looked closely at the dripping water and wondered why the drops were expanding. As G watched, the drops became large bubbles and started to float away toward the sun. G could see rainbow colors inside the bubbles and then he noticed he was floating above the water. He felt weightless and this did not make sense. The lights around him became brighter. He heard a noise and opened his eyes. He had been dreaming.

G turned off a control timer and quickly checked his internal sensors. All seemed well. He looked about the spaceship. He was in the control cabin. Green LCD lights on the control panels were showing normal status indicators. How long had he been out? He checked the readouts—six months. That checked with his instructions before he put himself into standby mode. It was time to get up from his control chair.

The ship’s control cabin was