That Elusive Cure - The Headlines

By lisa h

Thu, 24 Oct 2013
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Two years later:

22nd Oct – Could nanoparticles be curing us in the next decade? Breakthrough in nanotechnology as scientists cure tumour ridden mice.

 

Four years later:

10th October – English scientist Robert Handler is surprise winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for work in medicinal use nanotechnology. 

 

Five years later:

3rd May – Nobel Prize winning scientist Robert Handler unveils prototype for a miraculous healing scanner. Using nanotechnology most illness can be cured with just a few painless sessions. Hailed the most important invention of all time. Handler is lauded.

12th September – Nobel Prize winner Robert Handler outed as a fraud. Miracle machine used to con investors out of millions proved to be a fake.

24th September – Shamed scientist Robert Handler stripped of his Nobel Prize.

30th September – Disgraced scientist Robert Handler found dead in his home after suspected suicide. The police aren’t looking for anyone in connection with his death.

 

Six years later:

15th January – Eighty-nine year old Oscar winning actor Steve Williams in remission from terminal lung cancer despite chain smoking for over seventy years. Puts his miraculous recovery down to eating well and a positive attitude.

Certificate 15
Story
That Elusive Cure and other 2013 stories
Science fiction

Comments

Submitted by celticman on

ha. ingenuious. No easy answers.

 

Submitted by lisa h on

Thank you, Celticman! Hoping I managed to clean up the last remaining threads with the headlines. I had these in my head while I was writing the first chapter, way back when. And thank you so much for sticking with this and reading it all. :)

Submitted by celticman on

I read it because it was so good. So thank you for keeping me entertained.

 

Submitted by lisa h on

Thank you CM x

Submitted by jolono on

Wonderful and as CM says quite ingenious. I'm now bracing myself for the final chapters...

 

Submitted by lisa h on

No Joe! This was the final chapter! Please tell me you were kidding? I posted up all three this morning.

Submitted by jolono on

Sorry Lisa. I read this first not realising there were two before! Have read them all now.

Its been a journey and a fantastic one at that. I do love a story where I have absolutely no idea where its going to take me. When I read the first couple of chapters I thought i knew where it would lead. But you threw so much into it that I began to doubt my conclusions.

You have a wonderful writing style that makes it easy for us to get absorbed in the story and want to continue reading.

This is certainly one of the best series I have read on Abc since I found the site two years ago.

Now go and get it published and let us all know when we can go out and buy it. I've already sorted out the hire for the Tux!

 

Submitted by lisa h on

Thank you so much Joe, for all the support and comments. That goes for all the others who have also stuck with this story and made fantastic suggestions. I hope you saw them being implemented as I wrote the story!

Whether this finds a proper home or if I self-publish (I’ve had some success doing this) it will be available at the very least as an ebook before long.

Lisa

Submitted by scratch on

Congratuverylations lisa!  I'm with jolono on all the praise, a brilliant story and written so well.  An example to us all.heart

 

Submitted by lisa h on

Thank you, scratch! x

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

A great, clever conclusion.  I'm glad to know that the scientist got his come-uppance, yet the work goes on.  Congratulations Lisa, it's not often something keeps me as gripped as this did.  Hope it gets the success it deserves.

Linda

Submitted by lisa h on

Hi Linda, thank you so much for reading the whole thing, and all your wonderful comments along the way. I'm just happy it's being enjoyed here at the moment. What happens in the future... who knows. :)

Lisa

Submitted by grover on

Well done on finishing this entire story. I wish I could get through a full plot like this, but I've never managed beyond 25k. I can't wait to see it published. On reflection, having read it all, I still stand that the plot with Kath dad's affair was a non starter. Instead, I'd give more attention to Wendy and build more on that as the end of that plot was shattering. I also liked the Bob plot as it added a bit of a threat to the pod. 

Thanks for the read - glad I stuck with it. 

 

Submitted by grover on

How's the edit going? How long until you get it published?  I'm waiting to order a copy.