“PRIME DIFFERENCE” (Science Fiction Short Story) #WeirdDarkness

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Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode with a story that we’ll be using soon in my other podcast, “Auditory Anthology” which comes out with new episodes every week (https://www.auditoryanthology.com). My partner at “Auditory Anthology”, Keith Conrad, curates stories from old sci-fi magazines, journals, books, and radio shows, and I voice the scripts. As much as I love old time radio, being able to tell these classic sci-fi stories from the 50s is a real treat for me. This story is one I actually heard many years ago on Old Time Radio, and the first time I heard it I absolutely fell in love with the story. So when I saw that Keith had sent me this one to narrate, I was beyond excited. The story is entitled “Prime Difference”, written by Alan Nourse. It was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in June 1957. It’s dated of course, assuming android technology would be available in the late 1960s. Well it wasn’t – and it still isn’t just yet. But listen to this story and you tell me if you don’t think it’s prophetic, even if they did guess wrong on the year!

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
Auditory Anthology podcast: https://www.auditoryanthology.com
“Prime Difference” is a work of fiction, written by Alan Nourse – originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in June 1957: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51321/51321-h/51321-h.htm

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Originally aired: May 24, 2024

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0:03.4	Is it possible that time doesn't really exist?
0:06.6	Can you find true love and marriage with a ghost?
0:10.3	How can a pothole revive the dead?
0:13.0	These are just some of the questions I have in my new YouTube series, Mind of Marler.
0:18.0	It's full of the Strange and Macabre as you'd expect from my Weird Darkness
0:22.3	podcast, but with an added twist of humor, satire,
0:26.1	and absurdity.
0:27.1	If you like comedy and creepiness, check out Mind of Marler on YouTube, or visit Weird Darkness.com
0:33.8	slash Mind of Marler.
0:37.2	About a year ago, I began getting tons of notifications
0:40.3	about how somebody was trying to log in to my social media.
0:43.0	I was getting email fishing scams on a daily basis.
0:47.0	I was being inundated with email sales pitches from companies I'd never even heard of.
0:52.0	I was getting calls and texts from those same companies.
0:55.1	I was listening to a podcast that talked about Incogni, short for Incognito, and I thought
1:00.5	I'd give it a try. For the past year, Incogni has reduced the number of email and
1:05.6	spam calls and texts that I receive. It's helped to protect my identity from hackers and helps
1:10.8	keep my data safe. Over the past year, Incogni has successfully removed my personal information from
1:17.0	over 200 different data brokerage sites,
1:20.0	and I get regular updates on how many are still in progress, how many have been successfully
1:24.3	completed, and how many requests were sent out to remove my personal information.
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