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diff --git a/26332.txt b/26332.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..358735f --- /dev/null +++ b/26332.txt @@ -0,0 +1,634 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Prize for Edie, by Jesse Franklin Bone + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Prize for Edie + +Author: Jesse Franklin Bone + +Release Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #26332] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PRIZE FOR EDIE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Andrew Wainwright, Dave Lovelace, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +A PRIZE ... FOR EDIE + +By J. F. BONE + +Illustrated by Schoenherr + +[Illustration] + + _The Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There + was no doubt that Edie had achieved the long-sought cancer + cure ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a + mistake ..._ + + +The letter from America arrived too late. The Committee had regarded +acceptance as a foregone conclusion, for no one since Boris Pasternak +had turned down a Nobel Prize. So when Professor Doctor Nels Christianson +opened the letter, there was not the slightest fear on his part, or on that +of his fellow committeemen, Dr. Eric Carlstrom and Dr. Sven Eklund, that +the letter would be anything other than the usual routine acceptance. + +"At last we learn the identity of this great research worker," Christianson +murmured as he scanned the closely typed sheets. Carlstrom and Eklund +waited impatiently, wondering at the peculiar expression that fixed itself +on Christianson's face. Fine beads of sweat appeared on the professor's +high narrow forehead as he laid the letter down. "Well," he said heavily, +"now we know." + +"Know what?" Eklund demanded. "What does it say? Does she accept?" + +"She accepts," Christianson said in a peculiar half-strangled tone as he +passed the letter to Eklund. "See for yourself." + +Eklund's reaction was different. His face was a mottled reddish white as +he finished the letter and handed it across the table to Carlstrom. "Why," +he demanded of no one in particular, "did this have to happen to us?" + +"It was bound to happen sometime," Carlstrom said. "It's just our +misfortune that it happened to us." He chuckled as he passed the letter +back to Christianson. "At least this year the presentation should be an +event worth remembering." + +"It seems that we have a little problem," Christianson said, making what +would probably be the understatement of the century. Possibly there would +be greater understatements in the remaining ninety-nine years of the +Twenty-first Century, but Carlstrom doubted it. "We certainly have our +necks out," he agreed. + +"We can't do it!" Eklund exploded. "We simply can't award the Nobel Prize +in medicine and physiology to that ... that _C. Edie_!" He sputtered into +silence. + +"We can hardly do anything else," Christianson said. "There's no +question as to the identity of the winner. Dr. Hanson's letter makes +that unmistakably clear. And there's no question that the award is +deserved." + +"We still could award it to someone else," Eklund said. + +"Not a chance. We've already said too much to the press. It's known all +over the world that the medical award is going to the discoverer of the +basic cause of cancer, to the founder of modern neoplastic therapy." +Christianson grimaced. "If we changed our decision now, there'd be all +sorts of embarrassing questions from the press." + +"I can see it now," Carlstrom said, "the banquet, the table, the flowers, +and Professor Doctor Nels Christianson in formal dress with the Order +of St. Olaf gleaming across his white shirtfront, standing before that +distinguished audience and announcing: 'The Nobel Prize in Medicine and +Physiology is awarded to--' and then that deadly hush when the audience +sees the winner." + +"You needn't rub it in," Christianson said unhappily. "I can see it, too." + +"These Americans!" Eklund said bitterly. He wiped his damp forehead. The +picture Carlstrom had drawn was accurate but hardly appealing. "One simply +can't trust them. Publishing a report as important as that as a laboratory +release. They should have given proper credit." + +"They did," Carlstrom said. "They did--precisely. But the world, including +us, was too stupid to see it. We have only ourselves to blame." + +"If it weren't for the fact that the work was inspired and effective," +Christianson muttered, "we might have a chance of salvaging this situation. +But through its application ninety-five per cent of cancers are now +curable. It is obviously the outstanding contribution to medicine in the +past five decades." + +"But we must consider the source," Eklund protested. "This award will make +the prize for medicine a laughingstock. No doctor will ever accept another. +If we go through with this, we might as well forget about the medical award +from now on. This will be its swan song. It hits too close to home. Too +many people have been saying similar things about our profession and its +trend toward specialization. And to have the Nobel Prize confirm them +would alienate every doctor in the world. We simply can't do it." + +"Yet who else has made a comparable discovery? Or one that is even half as +important?" Christianson asked. + +"That's a good question," Carlstrom said, "and a good answer to it +isn't going to be easy to find. For my part, I can only wish that Alphax +Laboratories had displayed an interest in literature rather than medicine. +Then our colleagues at the Academy could have had the painful decision." + +"Their task would be easier than ours," Christianson said wearily. "After +all, the criteria of art are more flexible. Medicine, unfortunately, is +based upon facts." + +"That's the hell of it," Carlstrom said. + +"There must be some way to solve this problem," Eklund said. "After all +it was a perfectly natural mistake. We never suspected that Alphax was a +physical rather than a biological sciences laboratory. Perhaps that might +offer grounds--" + +"I don't think so," Carlstrom interrupted. "The means in this case aren't +as important as the results, and we can't deny that the cancer problem is +virtually solved." + +"Even though men have been saying for the past two generations that the +answer was probably in the literature and all that was needed was someone +with the intelligence and the time to put the facts together, the fact +remains that it was C. Edie who did the job. And it required quite a bit +more than merely collecting facts. Intelligence and original thinking of +a high order was involved." Christianson sighed. + +"Some_one_," Eklund said bitterly. "Some _thing_ you mean. _C. +Edie_--C.E.D.--Computer, Extrapolating, Discriminatory. Manufactured +by Alphax Laboratories, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A. _C. Edie!_ +Americans!!--always naming things. A machine wins the Nobel Prize. +It's fantastic!" + +Christianson shook his head. "It's not fantastic, unfortunately. And I +see no way out. We can't even award the prize to the team of engineers who +designed and built Edie. Dr. Hanson is right when he says the discovery was +Edie's and not the engineers'. It would be like giving the prize to Albert +Einstein's parents because they created him." + + * * * * * + +"Is there any way we can keep the presentation secret?" Eklund asked. + +"I'm afraid not. The presentations are public. We've done too good a job +publicizing the Nobel Prize. As a telecast item, it's almost the equal of +the motion picture Academy Award." + +"I can imagine the reaction when our candidate is revealed in all her +metallic glory. A two-meter cube of steel filled with microminiaturized +circuits, complete with flashing lights and cogwheels," Carlstrom chuckled. +"And where are you going to hang the medal?" + +Christianson shivered. "I wish you wouldn't give that metal nightmare a +personality," he said. "It unnerves me. Personally, I wish that Dr. Hanson, +Alphax Laboratories, and Edie were all at the bottom of the ocean--in some +nice deep spot like the Mariannas Trench." He shrugged. "Of course, we +won't have that sort of luck, so we'll have to make the best of it." + +"It just goes to show that you can't trust Americans," Eklund said. "I've +always thought we should keep our awards on this side of the Atlantic where +people are sane and civilized. Making a personality out of a computer--ugh! +I suppose it's their idea of a joke." + +"I doubt it," Christianson said. "They just like to name things--preferably +with female names. It's a form of insecurity, the mother fixation. But +that's not important. I'm afraid, gentlemen, that we shall have to make +the award as we have planned. I can see no way out. After all, there's no +reason why the machine cannot receive the prize. The conditions merely +state that it is to be presented to the one, regardless of nationality, +who makes the greatest contribution to medicine or physiology." + +"I wonder how His Majesty will take it," Carlstrom said. + +"The king! I'd forgotten that!" Eklund gasped. + +"I expect he'll have to take it," Christianson said. "He might even +appreciate the humor in the situation." + +"Gustaf Adolf is a good king, but there are limits," Eklund observed. + +"There are other considerations," Christianson replied. "After all, Edie is +the reason the Crown Prince is still alive, and Gustaf is fond of his son." + +"After all these years?" + +Christianson smiled. Swedish royalty _was_ long-lived. It was something +of a standing joke that King Gustaf would probably outlast the pyramids, +providing the pyramids lived in Sweden. "I'm sure His Majesty will +cooperate. He has a strong sense of duty and since the real problem is +his, not ours, I doubt if he will shirk it." + +"How do you figure that?" Eklund asked. + +"We merely select the candidates according to the rules, and according +to the nature of their contribution. Edie is obviously the outstanding +candidate in medicine for this year. It deserves the prize. We would +be compromising with principle if we did not award it fairly." + +"I suppose you're right," Eklund said gloomily. "I can't think of any +reasonable excuse to deny the award." + +"Nor I," Carlstrom said. "But what did you mean by that remark about +this being the king's problem?" + +"You forget," Christianson said mildly. "Of all of us, the king has the +most difficult part. As you know, the Nobel Prize is formally presented +at a State banquet." + +"Well?" + +"His Majesty is the host," Christianson said. "And just how does one eat +dinner with an electronic computer?" + + +THE END + + + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES + + +This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction +April 1961. 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