Jinkies!

[james_davis_nicoll]

As pointed out on Facebook:

Welcome to OMNI Magazine Collection
From Wikipedia:

OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. The first issue was published in October 1978, the last in Winter 1995, with an internet version lasting until 1998.

OMNI was launched by Kathy Keeton, long-time companion and later wife of Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, who described the magazine in its first issue as "an original if not controversial mixture of science fact, fiction, fantasy and the paranormal". Before launch it was referred to as Nova, but the name was changed before the first issue to avoid a conflict with the PBS science show of the same name, NOVA.

Comments

[brithistorian]

This is awesome! Thank you so much for pointing this out - I've missed Omni so much!

[thejeopardymaze]

I forgot how ridiculous much of that was, but it was still a part of my tw/eens.

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The Pear Shaped Man was the scariest story I ever read, and only read it once, it was like something crawled through my mind and molested my brain. Because of that I consider it true horror and give Martin credit for pushing all the right creepy buttons, it's just not something I will probably read again, much less recommend to anyone for the exact same reason.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Ooooh!

I'm looking forward to reading how the Space Shuttle will make spaceflight cheap enough to prove psychokinesis using micro-sensitive experiment gear and this will save the environment by building moon colonies.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

Would you rather the Soviets beat us to the punch?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I hear carbonated milk will be coming to store shelves next year.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Have people done PK experiments using nanoscale measuring devices?

Maybe the Eot-Wash people could modify their torsion pendulums to look for some kind of effect.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I bought a few issues of that magazine. I remember one cover feature on Deep Space Nine back when the show was about to launch. Not bad, as far as it went.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Omni. It had a sense of fun about it which other science magazines lacked. It didn't take itself very seriously.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

I tink Omni may have been where I first read about what turned out to be AIDS, although I don't remember gay people being mentioned.

[daev.livejournal.com]

I went googling for that story because it sounds interesting. I couldn't find it in Omni, but I came up with this comment on a message board which proves you were not dreaming.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

As I remember it the article I read discussed a mysterious "Virus X," or something along those lines. One of the symptoms was dementia, which afflicts AIDS suffers. Whichever magazine I read the article in I remember reading it in '81 or early '82 at the latest, and the magazine might have been a couple years old by then.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I remember reading about AIDS in Science 8[whatever]. It was the cover story, and the cover had text on it that said something like "First it killed Haitians. Then it killed gay men. Now it's killing children."

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this came up in the Metafilter thread about Omni.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I wonder who actually holds the rights to those . . .

[montedavis.livejournal.com]

Advertising dollars were spread among the different magazines, and those without deep pockets soon folded in the early 1980s...

As an editor/writer at OMNI and then Discover, I was entertained to see how little difference there is between Sophisticated Publishers and the benighted farmer who notes high soybean prices, plants all his land in soybeans (just as all his neighbors are doing), and is blindsided by falling soybean prices.

Fortunately, that doesn't happen any more in the digital economy.

[rpresser.livejournal.com]

I had a subscription for two or three years. At the time it was my main intake of science fiction other than the library. One could also always count on at least one picture of bare breasts within the "Continuum" section, probably to satisfy Guccione who published it.

Coincidentally, I just disposed of my collection last month. Glad I can get it back digitally.

[rpresser.livejournal.com]

Ugh, these scans are pretty bad.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

The PDF for the first issue, regrettably, is pretty much unreadable.