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   Paul T. Baker on September 3, 2003 at 5:08 am

   I never had a subscription, but growing up in the ’80s I used to make my parents buy it for me.
   I only wish I’d kept my stack of back issues. Not since ‘National Geographic’ has there been a mag that deserved stacking in library shelves and garage sales and thrift stores.
   It’s almost a ‘recovered memory’; none of the people I know now have ever heard of OMNI.
   Ah, to be 10 again…

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   Paul T. Baker on September 3, 2003 at 5:09 am

   I never had a subscription, but growing up in the ’80s I used to make my parents buy it for me.
   I only wish I’d kept my stack of back issues. Not since ‘National Geographic’ has there been a mag that deserved stacking in library shelves and garage sales and thrift stores.
   It’s almost a ‘recovered memory’; none of the people I know now have ever heard of OMNI.
   Ah, to be 10 again…

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   Diskmuncher on September 28, 2003 at 5:42 pm

   Sitting here watching “The Second Arrival” on SciFi, and the main character said “I’m an Omni reader myself”. The film was made in 1998. Jeez I miss Omni…I was too young to afford a subscription myself, but like a previous poster I asked my parents to buy as many issues as I could get my hands on.

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   Christopher on September 28, 2003 at 6:11 pm

   Funnily enough, that’s what sent me online looking for the OMNI website–which appears to be down. Rest in peace, OMNI.

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   Andrew on September 28, 2003 at 7:50 pm

   Omni Magazine was one of the most rewarding reading experience I ever had…too bad the very quirkiness that made it so endearing to me probablt prevented it from making it into the big time. RIP Omni, u will be truly missed

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   Rod on September 30, 2003 at 6:36 pm

   Does anyone know where on ‘net I could find thumbs of the cover art? There is one artist whose work I’m looking for and do not remember his name.

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   David on October 4, 2003 at 12:10 am

   Rod,

   I haven’t found copies of Omni Cover art. But there is a list of the fiction authors that were published in Omni at:

   http://www.hycyber.com/SF/omni_index.html

   I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the list. But it’s more than I had before.

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   Dwight Larks on October 6, 2003 at 4:05 pm

   Hey I used to love to read OMNI Mag in fact my dad used to bring it home and give it to me once he was done reading it. I learned about it because at our local 7-11 there was an advertisement just above the bike rack that was a huge OMNI MAG one. I have a VERY HAUNTING QUESTION ABOUT THE MAG and mabe someone can help me!!! In one of the issues there was a page dedicated to the number 15! and it showed a picture of 15 pool balls racked up so that from the bottom all the way to the tip of the triangle, the balls were stacked so that each ball next to another subtracted from it to add up to the ball directly above both of them ALL THE WAY UP AND I CANT FIGURE IT OUT. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OLD MAGAZINES THAT THEY COULD LOOK THROUGH TO FIND IT?? MY EMAIL ADRESS IS DWIGHTLARKS@YAHOO.COM

   THANKS YA’LL

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   Bryan Day on October 7, 2003 at 12:25 am

   I used to have a subscription to Omni in its final days. I remember a big article on cryonics and a series of articles on alien abductions. After the magazine mysteriously vanished, the subscription was changed to Astronomy magazine for the rest of it’s duration.

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    Bryan Day on October 7, 2003 at 12:28 am

    Also. I remember at the time the magazine disappeared it was produced by the same folks who made Compute, Longevity, and Penthouse. Notice the same style writing on the covers of all four magazines.

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    Dustin Huber on October 7, 2003 at 4:20 pm

    I’m sad to hear that Omni is no more. We recently moved and I found a couple of old issues from 1987 that I kept, and I felt a real nostalgia for such a great magazine. Now a websearch reveals that it is no more. Damn. Does anyone know which, if any, libraries carry back issues of Omni? I’m really interested in getting some articles referenced to in the issues I found.

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    bella on October 17, 2003 at 1:33 am

    What is with our joint reflection of Omni???

    I am also looking for cover art. I had found a number to call (which I did) and they gave me some info. on artist. H.R. Giger is one. And Robert Venosa is another. They both have gallerys on the web. I worked in a college library and would pounce on the new Omni and hide in the shelves. It truly did free your mind to everything.

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    Roland S. Byrd on October 17, 2003 at 1:17 pm

    I loved OMNI when I was growing up! All of the articles and stories, the artwork…….Wow what memories.

    I’d always wanted to be published in OMNI, gues I missed that one :)

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    Lauren on October 18, 2003 at 12:24 pm

    Back in the late ’70s, early ’80s I read a short story in OMNI about someone who committed suicide or was trying to. The method involved having electrodes plugged to the pleasure centers of the brain and a tube for water, but no food. My students just read “Carcinoma Angels” by Norman Spinrad in class and were wondering how Harrison Wintergreen survived without food or water. I was hoping to excerpt the story, but that’s all I remember. Anybody?

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    Joseph on October 22, 2003 at 1:33 pm

    OMNI was my favorite magazine when I was growing up – I remember the first issue that I had noticed at the magazine stand in the grocery store had fascinated me – the cover art had a butterfly sitting on a diaper pin.
    I had begged my Dad to buy it for me, but he refused.
    I was more successful a couple of years later, when I had finally talked my Mom into buying me the January, 1981 issue – the cover was amazing, and one of the major articles dealt with fusion power (very disappointing that we still haven’t invested the funding necessary to develop it like we could have..).
    The artwork and photography was first rate and very unusual…
    From then on I’d try to weasel my parents into getting me an issue of OMNI here and there…I guess they finally came around and probably thought it was good for my educational development (it was in the sense that it opened my mind to further technological possiblilites, and expanded my horizons of the future’s potential – not many other kids in my class read OMNI..).
    Each new magazine I received was a huge thrill….I remember the glossy paper (quality stuff, not like the cheap quality magazines you find today…), the terrific artwork, the fascinating stories….the odd but interesting subjects in the Continuum and Anti-Matter sections…the exciting science-fact articles and tantalizing science-fiction stories from such authors as Ben Bova (who was also the editor of OMNI for a while) and William Gibson….OMNI had it all, and there was simply no magazine like it, nor has there been before or since!
    I had a nice little collection of OMNI’s, and could always turn to them whenever I was bored…
    Years later when I joined the Air Force from ’88 to ’94, I had to leave them all behind at my Dad’s house, at which point most of them would up missing…
    I managed to find a few of them, but had to resort to old bookstores to find a few more…then, of course, ebay, where I was able to find as many as I wished….
    OMNI’s heyday was from its inception back in 1978 all the way to the end of 1986…then the quality started to drop…it was still fairly good, but things got progressively worse until it reached its most pathetic state around 1994, when it tried to jump on the X-Files bandwagon and dedicate huge sections to investigating UFO abductions (much more than in it’s past).
    The size and quality of the physical magazine had dropped dramatically (nothing like those old, huge issues with the quality paper), and in the end they tried to save themselves by adding “OMNI Comix” (to what, appeal to a “younger and more hip” audience??).
    Now, don’t get me wrong, what few “Comix” they had were actually pretty good, but IMO they had no place in OMNI.
    OMNI disappered for a while in May of ’95, then came back for two more issues in the fall and winter of ’95 (they had announced they would be a quarterly publication from then on..), then finally (I think in the last issue), they announced that, since they were a magazine about the future, they were going to be an online magazine only (read: just another webpage, oh boy, whoopde-doo..).
    I’ve visited the OMNI website, and it really doesn’t hold a candle to the real OMNI magazines.
    I tried the site a little while ago and it’s no longer there – no biggie, I won’t miss it because I didn’t like the site anyway, and also because I have stacks and stacks of the REAL OMNI Magazine at home.
    The age of the paper magazine has still not left us – sometimes I dream that Ben Bova and some of the original staff of OMNI from the early 80’s would get together and start it up again, in the old format, a nice, huge, quality magazine for a niche market who’d be willing to pay more for quality (why not? Cinefex magazine goes for $10.00 a pop and has been in publication since the early 80’s..).
    Ahh, well…so long as I have my collection of old OMNI’s, in my mind the mag will never be truly dead….

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    Julie on October 29, 2003 at 2:48 pm

    Hello, I have all the issues from like 1987 until it was cancelled in semi-pristine condition. I’m still unpacking them and will do a proper count when I’ve found them all. I hate to just throw them away, did an omni magazine search to see if anyone would be interested in them, and found this site. The shipping costs would be spendy, but maybe it would be worth it for you all?

    And BTW, I could not find *any* library interested in taking them because it’s no longer in circulation and they are not properly “archived” for research purposes.

    Please let me know if you’re interested. Julie

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    steve on October 30, 2003 at 2:25 pm

    I was an avid reader too & miss it a lot. glad to see I’m not alone. it was a GREAT mag…

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    Lauri on November 3, 2003 at 11:21 am

    I checked the website – still down. Omni was a great magazine, I read it when I was a child, as well. Bummer.

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    Jeff on November 3, 2003 at 10:24 pm

    Amazing. Tonight, after so many years, I finally decided to look up an old friend, and find so many other’s searching for him too. I read OMNI throughout my teen years and am proud to say that it inspired me more than any other publication, teacher, lover or leader. I was hoping to discover that OMNI had somehow been resurrected after my subscription, which had suddenly become Astronomy, had run out so many years ago. I miss OMNI, the art, the writing, the vision. I feel like an important part of me passed away. Certainly, an important part of history has been lost.

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    Gordon on November 4, 2003 at 3:58 am

    How odd! I don’t know what made me start looking for OMNI online, and I find the rest of you wondering what happened to it. I too loved the magazine. So quirky. If anyone is interested, there’s a guy on ebay who claims to have the entire printed collection (minus one issue) The photos look real enough. You can find the items here:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3563907022&category=1148#ebayphotohosting

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    Mark Norman on November 12, 2003 at 6:21 pm

    I’m in the UK, I grew up with OMNI too. I’ve still got dozens of issues at my dad’s house – I guess I’d better get hold of them before something happens to them. They tried to launch a UK edition which only lasted a few issues at my newsagent. Not so much a magazine as a work of art I always thought, the future as it was meant to be.
    I remember I leant a few issues to my chemistry teacher, and spent months trying to get them back! I think the world might be ready for a re-launch. How about it?

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    Kimbel on November 13, 2003 at 3:24 am

    Gid’ay from WA.
    I an all. I just went on-line to see if I could find OMNI because I’ve had this short story idea lurking in the recesses of my mind that I thought they might like to pay me thousands for.
    And they’re gone! RIP OMNI

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    Boris on November 16, 2003 at 8:10 pm

    I’m looking for a picture from a 70’s (80’s?) Omni magazine of people hanging out at a space lounge. I remeber there being a spaceship flying by the window… Anybody have a scan of this pic from an old issue??

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    curtis on November 19, 2003 at 4:04 pm

    One of you asked about artists featured in Omni. H R Giger was mentioned but the other one you need to check out is Marshall Arisman. Also, Lauren asked about a story where some one committed electonic suicide. I think I still have an original copy with that story. If I can find it Lauren I’ll post another message letting you know and send it to you.

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    John Aspen on November 20, 2003 at 8:40 am

    The first time I came across an issue of Omni was back in the early 80’s where my mother worked in a coffee shop. A full-time university student who was working as a donut baker (remember those) gave me an issue to look through…..I WAS HOOKED! The content was truly way ahead of its time and the articles just kept me mesmerized till the last page.

    I wish that they continued publication but I suppose demand or the lack there of, put it in its final resting place.

    Final thought….Omni Magazine was one of the best magazines ever produced.

    What was the University Student taking at the time? Computer Science/Programming…..computer science I said, what’s that?

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    Ferrett on November 23, 2003 at 12:12 pm

    Omni was definitely great, and I’m sad to hear it’s no more. I was an avid reader in the early- to mid-80s, then restarted again in the early 90s but as mentioned above the quality had fallen through the floor.

    For what it’s worth, in the UK the magazine “Focus” is similar (ish) and always a good read. See “http://www.focusmag.co.uk“ (btw the website is awful but the magazine is excellent!)

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    Zubie Zeballos on December 3, 2003 at 6:58 pm

    I was actually just thinking about the space art that appeared in the mag and also some of the old Terra Authority Handbooks, and this page came up as a major link. I remember convincing my dad to get the very first issue (which I have to admit I clipped pictures for a shuttle scrap book). I loved the mix of fact and fiction in a large slick, glossy magazine (although its style relationship to Penthouse I think made my mom uneasy). I clipped the spaceships and taped them on the walls and a cartoon of Mona Lisa on the Moon with a space suit that still sits in a box frame in my office.

    I actually had a subscription, but the magazine seemed slowly to drift into more non-science topics, alien abductions, soul energies, ghosts, etc, and that really turned me off and at some point I just didn’t bother to renew it.

    Nobody has mentioned it, but I wonder if “Wired” in a sense didn’t inherit what would have originally been Omni readers (particularly for the early years of Omni): a large format and art heavy publication on non-art subjects. Wired articles on Hal’s Birthday and X Prize are classic Omni topics.

    And I do miss the fiction. I did see some issues of its last years and they were much poorer in comparison. (web site I recall was awful, some remnants stored still at http://www.archive.org)

    For the person asking about the space lounge, I think I recall the picture and was able to trace it down to possibly to this one called “Spaceport” by Jim Burns which was in a little short section that featured a lot of his work (one, a robot in front of what looks like a souped up cross between an F4 and an Apache was in the TV promotion).

    Link for picture at art spot selling prints:
    http://www.artistsuk.net/acatalog/ARTISTS_UK__JIM_BURNS__71.html

    Other artists for spaceship art were Chris Moore and Peter Elson, John Harris, Jonh Berkley
    http://hugues.namur.free.fr/images_autres_HD/vaisseaux/illus/peter-elson_gallery/ThumbnailFrame.htm
    http://members.fortunecity.com/camarila/chrismoore.html
    http://www.konsept.com.tr/serbestdusme/yasam/hobi/bk/resim.htm

    Happy Hunting
    Zubie
    p.s. The Mona Lisa Cartoon was by “Rico” (Rico Schacherl?). I think he was a regular contributor.

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    Jef Hutchby. on December 8, 2003 at 2:23 am

    I was clearing out the attic at my parents house the other day (I left there about 20 years ago but I’m still moving out) and what should I find? 1st Edition of Omni! Damn how that brough my youth flooding back!. I was 15 at the time and the magazine cost me almost a third the money I earned each week but I wouldn’t have dreamed of giving up my subscription.

    I cant believe how this issue has survived so well at the bottom of a box for 25 years…I just wonder what I did with the rest of the issues. *sigh* …anyway, did a search on the internet regarding the magazine and here was the first place it brought me so… High *wave*.

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    FRANKe on December 11, 2003 at 2:33 am

    OMNI. Has there ever been another publication since with such vision? I have yet to see one. Ahh the nostalgia. My brother brought home a copy of the magazine for the first time in the early 80’s, I believe it was 81, and I have been an Sci-Fi fan ever since. It’s great to hear of other people’s recollections of the magazine. Just because of the memories of my childhood that I am recollecting because of this page, I am willing to pay 200 dollars to anyone who is willing to sell a complete set of the magazine. Please contact me at the email address posted.

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    Jack on December 14, 2003 at 9:06 pm

    I too am an avid OMNI reader. I was 14 when I first saw the premier edition at the grocery store and was instantly hooked. It became more of an information source almost than school. The early years were so ahead of their time with expensive paper stock and fancy art and great content. It couldn’t survive in today’s market I suppose. I managed to collect almost every one but 3 or 4. Now through time I have lost maybe 5 or 10 but apart from that, I have most from the beginning. Many good memories are tied into that mag.I wish It was still around but agree that Wired is as close as you can get in likeness.

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    Ken O'Toole on December 15, 2003 at 3:59 pm

    I have 145 issues of ‘Omni’dating back to Volume 1.Number1.the only problem for most of you guys is that I live in England…….but if you are interested you have my e.mail address[kenotoole123@msn.com]

32. 

    cab on December 17, 2003 at 4:32 pm

    who was the founder of OMNI mag?

    Thanks

33. 

    Annabelle on December 22, 2003 at 9:47 pm

    I have isues from the first year if anyone is interested in purchasing. Am about to post on ebay.

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    Jennifer on December 27, 2003 at 12:42 pm

    It was trying to track down an OMNI article that I remember reading – it was a fiction piece based upon what would happen if Mad Cow ran rampant in the beef industry and only non-beef eating cultures were the inheritors of leadership of the world after first world beef-eaters like the US were crippled by the crisis. This article was wrote at least 10 years before the big recent hoopla a bit ago about the UK’s Mad Cow outbreak. I thought of the article then and our most recent case in the US made me think about it again. I’m glad I don’t eat cow.

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    Russ on December 29, 2003 at 11:06 am

    I would be interested in any copies that anyone has for sale of just trying to get rid of. I had a subscription for a short time but I lost track and the magazines are long since gone. If you have any magazines that you no longer want please e-mail me at javatherus@si.rr.com Thanks.

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    Gordon on December 31, 2003 at 7:59 am

    Wow. Talk about deja vu… And it’s not even a glitch in the Matrix….

    I have been looking for a particular story from an old OMNI issue: The Eyes on A Butterfly’s Wings.

    The art for the story is what I’m after. It shows an unusual flat rock in the middle of a field, with a spring in the middle which becomes 4 separate streams. These streams divide the rock’s surface into four sections, which look eerily like a butterfly’s wing.

    Anyone heard of this, or have it?

    Thanks.

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    Rusty on December 31, 2003 at 12:38 pm

    Will somebody please explain to me when and how and why Omni died and why it is staying dead? I am an Editor of a magazine about magazines and I want to do a special feature on the Omni legend.

    Please contact me.

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    S,Jansen on January 5, 2004 at 1:18 pm

    Well today I happened to be watching a film and in the frame was a poster on a wall advertising OMNI.
    It bought back the memories of reading the latest issue till late at night. And that’s how I arrived at this site; to see that I was not the only avid fan of the magazine.
    Never found a substitute….

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    Tom W on January 6, 2004 at 4:34 pm

    Ah yes, I’ve seem to have taken a path and here and found many travellers here of similar nature.

    I too remember being 13 or so when the first issue showed up on the newstands.The cover looked deceptively futuristic. In reality it was a photo of a line of poles (or a guard rail?) at twilight. I had my sister buy it for me until I could afford a subscription. I think that I have every issue except for maybe one or two that vanished during college.

    The stories were great and the artwork was unbelievable. Giger is famous for Alien, but Omni had him first. Equally impressive was the work of Arisman, Venosa, Wunderlich, DeEs, Helnwein, etc. I still page through them when I have a few minutes of idle time.

    It did decline near the end, which came and that they rather abruptly. Without warning, I started receiving Discover. I thought that Wired would be a suitable replacement for a while, but alas it’s too much tech business and not enough tech science for me.

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    Wolfbanks on January 7, 2004 at 12:46 pm

    I,too, started reading Omni when about 16. Must have been ’79 or ’80. read it until I couldn’t find it anymore. R.I.P. Omni, You expanded my world and mind.
    Wolfbanks

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    Clinton W Wood IV on January 8, 2004 at 10:10 pm

    I read it too. My dad had a subscription to it. I miss the fiction the most. I just want to find one story that I remember reading; “Sand Kings”. It was a great story, I wish I could find a copy of it somewhere.

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    Tom W on January 14, 2004 at 3:55 pm

    Yes, Sandkings (by George R.R. Martin) was among the best stories that Omni ever published and was adapted for the first episode of showtime’s Outer Limits. It was published in a collection that is out of print, but you should be able to find it through Amazon.

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    microserf on January 16, 2004 at 5:25 am

    I wonder if enough of folks like us who miss the orginal quality of Omni will get the Guccioni folks to bring it back.

    A short story I read in OMNI magazine directly impacted my choice to get into the conputing/technology industry.. Can’t remember the name, but it was about a young programmer, who dealt w. security.. and it showed a pic of a guy wearing jeans, getting out of a black Porsche 928.. It was the time of having recently seen War Games (hardcore puter user), Tron (hardcore game developer goes into the game), etc., etc.. That story for me, above anything else, showed that technology and the people who knew how to control it, could be a powerful force, and garner riches.. Hey, I was a KID, ok? :) Perhaps Bill Gates read it too, hence his facination w. Porsche 911’s, and his crowning personal car achievement, being able to purchase a Porsche 959.. Does anyone here remember that story?Anyway, here is an excerpt I found on the web about the history of OMNI:

    OMNI Magazine

    ______

    What Wired is to Dr. Dobb’s Journal, OMNI magazine was to Scientific American. OMNI, published by Penthouse’s Bob Guccione, tried to make science sexy. Yeah, no foolin’. Never letting something like hard data verified by double-blind, repeatable experiments get in the way of a good 1,200 word feature, OMNI tried to tackle serious major freaky next-level shit like cryogenics, antimatter, fusion, psychotherapy, artificial intelligence, lucid dreaming, Dyson spheres, and alternative AIDS theories. You name it, OMNI was so there.

    Physically, OMNI was slick. What Wired tries to do with a river of neon orange and green printers ink, OMNI tried to do with muted silver, slate blue, glossy black, and umber. OMNI paid a premium for good art work. H.R. Giger was an early and regular contributor.

    OMNI began publication in November 1978 as a bimonthly magazine. OMNI folded in the mid’90s but was quickly reborn as a web site in September 1996. The web site version ceased publication in 1998.

    The magazine was headed from the beginning by Bob Guccione’s wife Kathy Keeton Guccione (a former stripper from South Africa). After nearly two decades at the helm of OMNI, she died in 1997 of cancer.

    While OMNI delved into a lot of material that people today would recognize as “that bloody new age crap”, OMNI maintained a respectable compliment of hard science writers. For example, NASA golden child and expert on the Soviet space program James Oberg wrote a skeptical column on UFOs.

    For the hard-bitten skeptic, OMNI was science porn. For the wide-eyed, tinfoil-hat-wearing UFO nut who believes an alien implant lies beneath every pimple and scar, OMNI was scientific validation of the truth that was out there. What can be said about OMNI is, regardless of where you stood on issues of UFOs and the paranormal, each issue of OMNI probably had something enjoyable to read by anyone with an interest in science.

    Favorites of many readers were the “Continuum” and “Antimatter” sections. Continuum featured small, gee whiz news item about interesting discoveries in the world of harder science. Antimatter published gee whiz items on the world of the paranormal and cryptozoology.

    And, no, I won’t let this history end without talking about OMNI’s contribution to the world of Science Fiction. OMNI paid one of the highest per-word rates in the world of publishing (possibly exceeded only by Playboy). It’s no consequence that OMNI published short stories and novelette-sized works by many legendary science fiction authors including the ABC of Sci Fi: Isaac Asimov (“Found”, 1978) Alfred Bester (“Galatea Galante”, 1979), and Arthur C. Clarke (“The Songs of Distant Earth”, 1979). (What about Ray Bradbury? He had “Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy” published in 1981! I’m aware of his work!). OMNI also shepherded along today’s giants in their more primordial phase. William Gibson (“Johnny Mnemonic”, 1981), Bruce Sterling (“Sunken Gardens”, 1984), and Orson Scott Card (“A Thousand Deaths”, 1978) all had early short stories and novelettes published in OMNI.

    Of course, who could ever forget reading George R. R. Martin’s “Sandkings”, first published in OMNI.

    The credit for much of OMNI’s groundbreaking Sci Fi in the ’80s can be firmly laid at the feet of its fiction editor Ellen Datlow, who edited the magazine’s fiction section between 1981 and 1998.

    In 1981 OMNI won the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Magazine of the Year. Nine years later, in 1990, OMNI caused some controversy in the journalistic world when it allowed Motorola to completely take over the front page with an ad. Motorola’s featured the first ever ad to contain a hologram. Guccione felt this was “out there” enough to warrant the front cover. Two of its editors quit in protest. The magazine earned a “dart” from the Columbia Journalism Review.

    Copyright 2003 Karl Mamer

    Free for online distribution as long as

    “Copyright 2003 Karl Mamer (kamamer@yahoo.com)”
    appears on the article.

    Direct comments and questions to mailto:kamamer@yahoo.com

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    Dick Australia on January 16, 2004 at 11:40 pm

    I too grew up with Omni and was keen to introduce my children to these wonders of illustration and fiction, but it seems it is not to be.
    Is there any thing that is similar,i doubt any thing could be as a single issue but I would be interested what have others found since

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    John on March 7, 2004 at 9:24 am

    I’m surprised I hadn’t found this forum before. I’ve been searching for a particular book that was originally exerpted in one of the early Omni magazines and maybe you folks could help. THe story was a more modern look at the second coming of Christ. THe scene: ER doctor in NYC is presented with a doa that exhibits all the classic signs, thorn marks on head, holes in hands, etc. The body subsequently dissapears from the morgue and later the docotr is visited in his summer house by a now quite alive and undamaged person. the story continues with lots of conversation over a perpetually full bottle of wine and ends with another version of the final conflict between good and evil.
    If any of you with a stack of the earlier issues wouln’t mind taking a few minutes and seeing if you can find the author and title of this story I would be most grateful.

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    David Wagner on March 11, 2004 at 5:39 am

    It’s become a minor obsession to find the artist whose work appeared on the cover of the September 1985 Omni, as well as in an Omni catalog of the mid-1980s. This artist painted haunting cyborg-women, a compelling blend of horn, metal, pipes and soft femininity, usually in front of a backdrop of industrial desolation. I’m going nuts trying the usual artist-cataloging sites.
    Can anyone help with this quest?

47. 

    Bill on November 5, 2004 at 2:58 pm

    I have about 2 years of old OMNI magizines ranging in date from 79 – 87 and I have been wondering what to do with them.Any Ideas besides #@$%^&*(

48. 

    jessica on November 6, 2004 at 2:49 pm

    my dad used to give me his old omni mags to cut the pics out of. i saved a lot of them, but there is one particular painting by an artest named Di Macchio. it went with an article called Make Believers. if anyone knows where i can find more about this artist that would be awsome, i’ve been looking for a very long time!

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    Stoneskimmer on December 30, 2004 at 3:06 pm

    As a published writer of short stories and some critiques for trade mags, I knew OMNI had died, but as I’m about to start on another novel with a sort of sci-fi bent to it, I thought to pop in here for noting more sinister than to refresh my mind as to a Mag, so sadly missed RIP OMNI, nope, time for a exhumation, come on Mr Gates, you ran enough ads for people to buy your newly floated company way back early 80s, you got the money, we believed, payback time Bill, launch OMNI again & I’ll forgive that damn purple dinosaur. I hear on the grapevine you have a few bucks, but no need to tell your financial advisers you’re entertaining such an idea :o) & before the accusations of selfpublicity arrive, no it isn’t :o) no names no pack drill nor pseudonyms this time, Ciao Omni, ciao good folk

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    sh on February 28, 2005 at 3:23 pm

    http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/omni_page_1.htm

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