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I probably have a box of these at my mother’s house in Sacramento… but here’s a good site about the magazine:

http://www.omnimagonline.com/

i totally remember this mag too. my boss at my graphic design internship in college did posters in the early-mid 80’s that looked a lot like this (especially the third one down). i cant believe he used to hand color in the negative space around reversed type, insane.

Nice! I collected Omni back in the day (mid-to-late 80’s). Hard to say exactly what it was about, generally sci-fi themed – a little bit of UFOlogy, a bit of future-thinking, some sci-fi stories. I wonder if I still have them somewhere…

Occasionally they’d have articles about weird but real subjects and approach them with some surface attempt at research. I remember my favorite being an article about lucid dreaming: what is was and how to teach yourself how to do it. I remember loving that one because the how-to was spot on and I had many years of fun with self-induced lucid dreaming.

When I was a kid, I had one issue of Omni and I guess that was my first non-soviet magazine. It was really awesome and as far as I remember it was in english, but had one translated short story ^_^

I now want to know what Arthur Clarke, Miles Davis, Pope John Paul, Miss Piggy, etc have in common…

I still have the first three complete years of Omni in hardshell sleeves that held 9 or 10 issues. You could order them from the magazine. They are very cool in and of themselves. Textured black with the Omni logo emblazoned in silver. Looking back at the issues I realize the degree of my parent’s liberal mindedness in allowing their very young child to buy these ( I was 8 or 9 when Omni was first published).