# Bob Guccione to relaunch Omni magazine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-guccione-to-relaunch-omni-magazine/299884 "2005-04-18T14:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-guccione-to-relaunch-omni-magazine/299884/21 "2005-04-20T18:14:48Z")
I agree about the pre-new-age-sitch-debacle Omni, it was a fantastic popular sci-fi magazine. It was greatest for its high quality short fiction and gained quite a reputation having many heavyweight authors published. For a couple of years, having a short story in Omni was of higher prestige than Analog, Harpers, et al. Then it spiraled down into crystal-rubbing area 51 vegan crap. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-guccione-to-relaunch-omni-magazine/299884/22 "2005-04-21T05:40:41Z")
The thing I loved about it was that it was about _ **possibilities** _. Far-reaching science. Fiction. One article was about an HP calculator plug-in for betting at horse races. I worked on the math and used it for a couple of years to take advantage of parimutuel descrepancies. Example: you would have made more money betting Secretariat to show rather than win in the final leg of the Triple Crown. My most-memorable fiction piece was about a guy who had his body tatooed in some exotic southeast Asian camouflage patterns to the point where he could become invisible… ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-guccione-to-relaunch-omni-magazine/299884/23 "2005-04-21T16:08:45Z")
I remember OMNI fondly. It was there I first read Spider Robinson. They printed the second chapter of _Mindkiller_ as the short story ‘God is an Iron’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-guccione-to-relaunch-omni-magazine/299884.md?page=1)