The full run of Omni Magazine has been archived and is available online-
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For those not familiar with Omni, it was a great magazine about science and technology that began publication in the late 1970s, balancing the more tangible "as we speak" news about tech stuff with speculative articles as well as outstanding photography, artwork, and fiction. A few of the fiction stories were only licensed for one-time publication and have been edited from the archives, though their titles still appear in the magazine index. Unfortunately the overall quality slipped a bit as the 80s wore on, but the earlier issues were great.

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I do remember! Thank you!

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"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Weisel

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it." - Billy Graham 1981

"Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise" - Barry Goldwater

As a kid, I remember the TV advertising push announcing the magazine was nearly continuous on my favorite UHF rerun channel.

I didn't even know that Omni Magazine had been forgotten.

Remember it well.

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I believe I still have a couple issues.

Looks like the PDF files of them are pretty small, might try and DL them all.

Edit: Small for a reason, they're almost illegible in PDF form.

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.....not Omni......potent....

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Haven’t seen that in forever, when did it go under?

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Holy smokes. My dad used to subscribe.

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Hurts like a bastid...

Ben Bova.. his books were pretty amazing as well.

Loved that magazine as a teen in the late 70s & early 80s

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Not really.

click on the 1 page view in the link . It is then readable .

Penthouse was better.

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As a kid, I remember the TV advertising push announcing the magazine was nearly continuous on my favorite UHF rerun channel.

Unimaginable today that a new print magazine would be advertised on television. Now there's something nobody in Omni ever predicted about the future...



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....what about....Playgirl....???


....heard it had really good articles......

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....what about....Playgirl....???


....heard it had really good articles......

Not around long enough to archive?

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NewtonMP2100
....what about....Playgirl....???


....heard it had really good articles......

Not around long enough to archive?

They were around from 1974 until 2000-ish in print form, but whoever owns the rights to the back issues is VERY protective of their content. Occasionally a pictorial or single image from Playgirl will get posted online but then it gets taken down very quickly. Some then "B-list" or lower stars who later made it big posed full-nude in earlier issues such as Don Johnson, no big deal in the 70s or 80s but potentially scandalous now, so there may be an enforced legal prohibition of some type against making the older content available online.

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WARNING- If I posted a link in the above message, assume it is at minimum "NSFW- Language". Occasionally you'll be wrong.

Lie to me if you must, but don't lie to me and insult my intelligence in the same sentence.

Resist the Thought Police: George Orwell's book 1984 was meant as a warning, not an instruction manual.

"Political correctness is just intellectual colonialism and psychological fascism for the creation of thought crime" - Steve Hughes

What's my "Super Power"? I can make active threads go stone-dead with a single post. I try to use this power only for good and not for evil but, you know... stuff happens.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/04/2022 12:45PM by Thrift Store Scott.