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06-25-2011, 02:56 AM
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06-30-2011, 02:38 PM
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07-01-2011, 05:45 AM
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Great thread! Omni rocked. I recall a little announcement that someone had figured out how to use discarded tires to manufacture citrus-scented air fresheners. The headline: "Lemon Tire, Very Pretty."
 The Scott Kim word art was great.
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07-01-2011, 09:03 AM
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- - - One thing that was unforgettable in an early issue was the breakthrough called "static gravity" by the late physicist and engineer Robert L. Forward. (He is also known for research into antimatter propulsion, space tethers, space fountains, and a host of creative futuristic technology with simulations.) He said that "static gravity" can explain why a slow-walking man moves slower than a fast-walking man, both of whom move faster than a man standing still. - - - - - - Of course, the piece was a rare joke by the distinguished scientist (and SF writer). One letter-of-comment said that the commenter wasn't onto him until that very line, although there was plenty of silly stuff the "article" had earlier.
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07-01-2011, 09:22 AM
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I wish I had the foresight to have kept them. 
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04-19-2012, 12:35 AM
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I have this Flow Chart from Omni. "How to Write a Science Fiction Novel" At least I have a bad Xerox of it.
How would I post it where you guys can see it?
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04-19-2012, 12:51 AM
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I'm not even sure you need to register with them to throw something up quickly.
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#59
04-21-2012, 02:18 AM
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Just Posted this on Image Shack
Omni Magazine's "How to Write a Science Fiction Novel" Flow Chart Check it out. It's still hilarious.
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04-21-2012, 07:41 AM
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04-21-2012, 07:44 AM
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Well it's not a glossy mag, but IO9 kinda reminds me of Omni, except of course for the lack of fiction. Lots of good science content, though.
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04-21-2012, 07:52 AM
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My brother bought it, but I would grab them as soon as he was done. I found the October 1985 issue at Goodwill a couple of months ago and picked it up. Still holds up as a good read 25+ years later.
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#63
04-21-2012, 12:58 PM
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I had completely forgotten that I really liked Omni when it first came out. All I could remember was the bitter aftertaste of a magazine that made no discernable distinction between science and science fiction.
Thanks for reminding me.
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#64
04-21-2012, 09:41 PM
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Link to Omni SciFi FLow CHart
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http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4...ciencefict.jpg
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#65
04-21-2012, 09:55 PM
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I don't know if anyone here noticed, but on the Omni Shrine site, they've got a project where someone has scanned every issue. They've got them as JPG, PDF, or CBZ. I'm traveling fit now, so, I dumped a number of issues from 1981 on to my iPad and am working my way back through them. Oddly, I'm a little disappointed at ow few ad pages there are. The old ads are at least half the fun!
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#66
04-22-2012, 08:38 AM
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Another one who misses it.
Also enjoyed old pulp SF and Fantasy mags that my uncle had collected over the years. Always full of adverts for Rosicrucians and Scientology, but incredibly imaginative stories, the like of which are a dying breed nowadays.
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#67
04-22-2012, 12:20 PM
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The Future Soon, by J. Coulton is about how someone might feel at 12 years old, sitting alone in their room and reading Omni. Rings a bell to anyone?
(the cite) http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/The_Future_Soon (the song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEEDa9Mej8 I remember being told by people how awesome Cyberpunk was and how I had to read these authors. And finally getting my hands on the collections and realizing... Gibson... Sterling... I'd read all these when they were first published. In Omni. I remember reading about dimensions and zero point energy and aliens and the crazy wonders of the world, some real, some insane. And the art. The art. An education in what art could be, not paint on a wall, but things that had meaning, that moved a young mind, in the context of the culture I lived in. I still have the issue with plans for a robot, somewhere. To Omni!
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04-22-2012, 02:17 PM
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I cannot find the scanned issues, can you point me in the right direction?
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#69
04-23-2012, 05:08 PM
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Guccione (of Penthouse reputation) launched Omni. I kinda figured they used the same print-house so that's why they had the same format (11 x 17 stapled in the middle and folded over -- except there was no "centerfold" in Omni
).Didn't Omni spin off Games magazine (or Puzzles, or some such name)? Wasn't that a plot device in I remember the weird planet sci-fi story. Something about the astronauts realizing the stones were sentient and communicating (and mobile) and one of the team going off on his own and figuring out how to get the rocks to "shit sulfur" and some accompanying art work showing human-looking rock formations... Perhaps one of you collectors can retroactively settle a bet that I lost in 1999: I bet that the Y2K "problem" was predicted in Omni magazine in the mid-1980s. I got subscriptions after I left High School (Class of 1984), but I don't remember how long I was getting them and I foolishly threw out my copies in the mid-1990's. However, I distinctly remember there was a brief blurb about this obscure little date-related impending doom if people didn't program around it soon. It was in the grey-colored pages at the beginning (or end?) of the magazine where they put all the little newsy tid-bits that didn't warrant a full-page article. I made my bet against 5 other guys, figuring I'd win 50 from each ($250 total) then discovered I had pitched my copies of Omni months earlier.  Without proof, I lost my bet. I argued my friends down to splitting $50 (instead of paying them $50 each ) but I still swear that blurb was published. Who can confirm?---G! Mem'ries.... Like the corners of my mind....
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04-29-2012, 01:39 PM
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04-29-2012, 05:52 PM
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05-03-2012, 12:49 PM
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05-03-2012, 06:21 PM
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I remember the heady days of the "high frontier"-and articles by the late Dr. Gerard O'Neill-about how we were going to colonize asteroids, have bases at the earth-moon Lagrange Points, build space colonies.
alas, that stuff never happened-but the pictures were great!
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#77
11-03-2012, 10:38 AM
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UPDATE
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https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine Not sure if it's complete or not. Nice that you can download in many formats.
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#79
11-03-2012, 02:26 PM
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I may still have, somewhere, a rejection letter from Omni where the person who had read my story had taken the time to hand-write at the bottom, "Please try again!"
Good times...
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11-03-2012, 04:15 PM
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11-03-2012, 04:26 PM
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I threw away a nearly complete set when I moved across country last year.
I loved Omni until they went off on a weird tangent and started including UFO and paranormal material as regular features - it wasn't just that material, but a devolution of the whole magazine that made me give up. I even recall the specific issue - a dark blue, black and white cover with a fantasy zebra and something like "The Death Issue" for a headline. It was like a completely different magazine from every issue before.
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#82
11-03-2012, 11:15 PM
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I collected OMNI for years (1980-1984), only to have them all destroyed by a flood.
I still have a "Best of OMNI Science Fiction" special issue, from 1981, I think. Looking forward to checking out that archive, thanks Revtim! Last edited by Mr. Me; 11-03-2012 at 11:16 PM.
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