Those of you who aren’t young whippersnappers may remember an old science magazine called OMNI. The magazine featured a wide selection of science fiction stories from writers ranging from Issac Asmov to William Gibson, as well as a variety of articles about science and pseudo-science.
Well, The Internet Archive has released scans of OMNI’s first 200 issues for free, which can be found here.
I remember Omni fondly. It was published by the same people who did Penthouse and we used to call it “Science Porn.” Of course, the magazine was just Science / Tech / Often great SF / PseudoFringe in a glossy package, but the label somehow fit. It just couldn’t survive the ‘Net, though they put out an online version for awhile in the 1990s.
ooh!! I loved Omni!!! Never missed an issue back in the day!!
This is seriously awesome! Now, what we need is a crowd of people who will take the poorly scanned originals, and clean up the *VERY POORLY* OCR’d epubs.
Also seriously awesome– a new Tara Li post! (the rest of you are awesome, too).
Anyone have November 6, 2012 for the next Tara Li post in the office pool?
As it happens – I had that date. One of my male appendage puppets will be by to collect it soon.