I used to love buying this magazine when it first came out. Beautiful cover artwork/short stories/Omni continuum.......

Not really. For every gem it came up with there was a LOT, and I do mean a LOT of dead air fluff. I did like the cover art and continuum though.

I bought the first issue way back when, since it promised never-before-published photographs which were claimed to be conclusive evidence of alien UFOs.

What did I get get?

Photographs of lenticular clouds over the Andes mountains.

Never bought another issue.


Just a predecessor of Wired magazine: high on appearance and design, low on content.

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I liked it for about the first year or so. Yes, there was a bunch of woo-woo stuff, but I liked the idea of mixed science and science fiction and it had some pretty good fiction. There were also some pretty funny contests - I recall one which was like wacky definitions - one of things that was defined was "Penguin Dust" which was either:
(1) The command given after "Penguin Wash Dishes" or "Penguin Vacuum"
(2) Fallout from an exploding Penguin.

Now what does it say about my brain that I remember that after 20+ years?

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I miss it because I once wrote a story where the only venue I could figure it would've been publishable was Omni. (It was a conspiracy theory about crazy bus people.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Like others, I read an issue or two, but it went downhill fast into woo woo ism.

No, I don't miss it.

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"Arrrgh, the laws of physics be a harsh mistress!" -- Bender

Nope. As aurora notes, too much woo. Good riddance.

My sister got me a subscription to it. She liked the artwork - but she has very different tastes in art than I do. Most of the stories weren't my style either and usually too short. There was an an occasional interesting article, but it wasn't great.

I let the subscription lapse but occasionally would pick up an issue at the book store. I didn't realize they had folded for a year or two.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

I miss the ambigram-ish OMNI logo that could be read vertically as:

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0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 ...

Originally thought they were going to be a
combination of science and centrefolds
but noooooo! Threw some out recently, do
not say they are valuable!

We've been getting Cosmos down here for the last six months or so - it's a pretty good read. http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/

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