Negative Space: OMNI Magazine
- The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 2
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I always enjoyed Omni, but, unlike its sister publication, I enjoyed it for its photos more than for the stories. Its best, however, was not too bad, at least from 1978-1980.
- Better for being ridden: the eternal lie of the anointed
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Whenever there’s a crisis, politicians and the media always tell us that if we do what they say, we’ll be all right. This is always a lie. And however often they fail and however many die from their ministrations, their wabbling fingers always return to the mire.
- Omni welcomes the eighties
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The issues of Omni straddling 1979 and 1980 are a fascinating look at how the United States was changing as computer technology heated up—and space missions cooled down.
- Omni’s Jobs of the Future from 1985
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What Omni’s popular science writers saw as the jobs of tomorrow thirty years ago.
- Political Correctness and “Gay Diseases” in 1981
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One of the reasons HIV spread so quickly through the gay community of the late seventies and early eighties is that researchers refused to acknowledge how casually the gay community treated sex.
- Power Play 2020
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Frederik Pohl shows why science fiction authors aren’t any better at being futurists than anyone else. Hubris is a powerful drug.
More Information
- Omni, November 1981 (magazine)
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“Arthur C. Clarke, James A. Michener, Ray Bradbury, Carl Sagan, Erica Jong, Norman Cousins, Robert Silverberg, et al, on blimps, explorers, magnetic people, and transsexual reincarnation.”
- Omni October 1978 (magazine)
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Omni Magazine, October 1978. Cover by Pete Turner.
