Gabriella

by Carl Facciponte

Overview

To be human…
… does it require blood and bones?
Gabriella West is an android, but she’s special. She lives on her own, she falls in love, and she even searches to find God.
But there’s a catch: no one, except for her creators and the government, are aware she is a machine.
As she searches for a pathway that leads her to become more human, she finds something interesting.
And the revelation blows her mind.
When she was created, they implanted a switch in her, and its purpose isn’t a good one. Can she discover the trigger before she gets shut down?
Will she be able to become “human” and find love, or will she be forced to comply with her main objective, and lose everything she treasures?
How thin IS the line between human and machine?

'Gabrielle' seeks to do more than present a riveting science fiction story. It carefully explores the salient differences between humans and machines, trying to identify the boundary where they cross over. If an android can think and learn autonomously, would they be human? If it can feel affection and love, if it can enjoy everything that a regular human can, including sexual relationships, would that make it human? But animals can also display these traits. There must be more to being human. Is it the search for an understanding of God that is the differentiating factor? Or is it man's ability to lie, cheat, and kill that differentiates us? In a thrilling story of intrigue and scientific development, 'Gabrielle' questions the boundary between human and machine.

A hand-selected Artificial Intelligence Lab created Gabriella to push scientific boundaries by developing an advanced humanoid. However, even the lab director and its team of brilliant scientists and engineers have no idea that the military is funding the project to develop the latest weapon on terrorism. They have commissioned an android utterly indistinguishable from a human, tasked with penetrating the most dangerous terrorist cells. Even Gabrielle has no clue as to what her real mission is. In her quest to become human, she falls in love with a divorced pastor, Paul, and his six-year-old daughter, Alexi.

A simple email, written by a jealous coworker, triggers a series of events, which ultimately leads to a gristly murder. Gabriella became the leading suspect and tried for the crime. While in prison, she discovers a secret code buried deep within her nano-gel brain that is effectively a kill switch. She must develop a new computer language to override the kill switch without anyone being aware that she has tampered with the mechanism.

Gabriella is approached by a homeland security agent and coerced into infiltrating a terrorist cell on US soil. She must choose between putting aside her newfound morals, and risk her relationship with pastor Paul and her dream of becoming a mother to Alexi, or refuse to carry through the with the assignment and risk her very life. Either choice can make her lose everything she holds dear.

Note: Includes Christian theology concepts, violence, mild sex.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163435050
Publisher:	Carl Facciponte
Publication date:	03/23/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	414 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Carl Facciponte travels the world and gathers his book concepts and content from those travels to incorporate into his fiction and non-fiction books.
His favorite destination: the Amazon River.
Why: He loves to work with the indigenous people in the rain forest on their construction projects.
Challenges: He doesn’t speak their language. Hearts supersede languages.

Published Books:
“Gabriella, ‘till death do us part… maybe”
To be human…
… does it require blood and bones?
Gabriella West is an android, but she’s special. She lives on her own, falls in love, and wants a family. Only her creators and the government know she is a machine. In her quest to become human, she collides with sexual awareness, military deception, murder, sinister programming, and the search for God with a divorced pastor and his young daughter.
'Gabriella' seeks to do more than present a riveting science fiction story. It carefully explores the salient differences between humans and machines, trying to identify the boundary where they cross over. If an android can think and learn autonomously, would they be human? If it can feel affection and love, if it can enjoy everything that a regular human can, including sexual relationships, would that make it human? But animals can also display these traits. There must be more to being human. Is it the search for an understanding of God that is the differentiating factor? Or is it man's ability to lie, cheat, and kill that differentiates us? In a thrilling story of intrigue and scientific development, 'Gabrielle' questions the boundary between human and machine.

"Tribulation and Escape" addresses the oft-misunderstood and confusing concepts surrounding the last seven years of Earth's history commonly called the Tribulation Period. Carl carefully, logically, and sometimes controversially, demystifies the topics with easy to understand language. This book has been engineered and written to spur spirited discussion among your reading or study groups. Carl has been building his expertise in end-time events for over a decade.

"Blessings from Ethiopia" is a very heavily illustrated (photos on virtually every page), cathartic, review of his visits to AIDS compounds, leper colonies, city dumps where people eat whatever they can find, and various orphanages in Ethiopia, including an HIV+ young children's orphanage. Stories from working in the waiting center of Operation Smile will warm your heart as children with severe deformities are restored by volunteer surgeons. His writing style will both tear at your heart and lift your spirit as you meet some extraordinary young Americans who are making a difference in people's lives as they work with these outcasts.

Although he has lived in the states of Illinois, South Carolina, and California, he was born in, and currently lives in, upstate New York where he says, tongue in cheek, that he loves living in New York because seasonal weather changes are delivered free, right to your very own doorstep without having to drive anywhere else to get them. He also quips that if you don't like the weather, just wait twenty minutes and it will change.

Carl teaches Photography, Marketing, Personal Finance, Creation/Evolution, and Microsoft Office courses as electives at the high school level. He and his wife are Directors of a seven-month adult Catechism program in their home church, as well as being active in the mission field.

Carl is comfortable and proficient in speaking to small or large groups and is available for speaking engagements. He has been a featured lecturer at the Mid-Atlantic Nuclear Training Group nuclear industry training conventions where he speaks on training design and development techniques for the nuclear power industry.