Before OMNI existed here, it was a flesh-and-blood publication that thrived for 18 years, filling the mailboxes and newsstands of its devotees with thrilling dispatches from the edge of tomorrow. It’s difficult to overestimate OMNI‘s impact on a generation of minds. In taking the first hesitant steps in these big editorial shoes, I’ve crossed paths with countless people–scientists, artists, hackers, dreamers, engineers, critics–who trace the genealogical lines of their inspired, polymathic thinking to a single origin point: OMNI. It’s daunting.
OMNI‘s own lineage is complex. It was the brainchild of Bob Guccione, known to most as the kingpin of the Penthouse empire. Bob cared deeply about both art and science, believing that the mysteries of the universe could be made comprehensible if the right combination of analytic and experimental inquiry was continuously applied. This may have been an ambitious notion, especially for a man known primarily as a pornographer, but it was sincere, and its scope allowed for nearly two decades of radical, invigorating, gonzo exploration. Bob, all gold chains and leather pants, with his eyes to the sky, is our unlikely patron saint now.
The new OMNI will not be the magazine you remember. We will never be able to compete with your nostalgia. We can’t. If you’re here, catalyzed to explore our OMNI Reboot by your fond memories of OMNI as it once was, you know what I mean: it’s too sacred to imitate. No one–not even a fan–should crawl into its crazy, lucid, beautiful skin and attempt to speak through it like a puppet. That would be living in the past–and OMNI was a magazine about the future.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner (who is still editor and publisher) and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.
The magazine was named after the 1948 Muddy Waters song of the same name. The magazine was known for its political coverage beginning in the 1970s, with the enigmatic and controversial gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Rolling Stone Magazine changed its format in the 1990s to appeal to younger readers,[3] often focusing on young television or film actors and pop music. This led to criticism that the magazine was emphasizing style over substance.[4] In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content, including in-depth political stories, and has seen its circulation increase.
Starlog
Starlog was a monthly science-fiction film magazine published by Starlog Group Inc. The magazine was created by publishers Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs. O'Quinn was the magazine's editor while Jacobs ran the business side of things, dealing with typesetters, engravers and printers. They got their start in publishing creating a soap opera magazine. In the mid-1970s, O'Quinn and high school friend David Houston talked about creating a magazine that would cover science fiction-related films and television programs.
As of December 2008, the official website at Starlog.com had ceased to operate. In March 2009, Starlog became a sister site to Fangoria magazine's official site, with a new url tied to Fangoria. Simultaneously, production was halted on issue #375, May 2009. New content began to appear on the Starlog website on April 7, 2009, after the site returned to its original Starlog.com domain. The folding of the print edition was officially announced on April 8, with the unpublished issue promised in the near future as a web-only publication. Unusually, the publishers have indicated they plan to resume a print edition, though whether this comes to pass remains to be seen.[1]
Future Life
Future Life magazine was published from 1978 through 1981 by O'Quinn Studios, publisher of Starlog magazine (and later redubbed Starlog Group). It featured science and science fiction with a sense of wonder and fun, along with a healthy dose of space art, music, and the best writers and thinkers in science fiction and popular science.
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French science-fantasy magazine Métal Hurlant which had debuted December 1974. The French title translates literally as "Howling Metal."
When Mogel licensed the American version, he chose to rename it, and Heavy Metal began in the U.S. on April, 1977 as a glossy, full-color monthly. Initially, it displayed translations of graphic stories originally published in Métal Hurlant, including work by Enki Bilal, Jean Giraud (also known as Moebius), Philippe Druillet, Milo Manara and Philippe Caza. The magazine later ran Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore's ultra-violent RanXerox. Since the color pages had already been shot in France, the budget to reproduce them in the U.S. version was greatly reduced.
Mother Jones
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is an independent, nonprofit magazine rooted in liberal and progressive political values. It is widely known for its investigative reporting. Mother Jones has been nominated for 17 National Magazine Awards and has won five times, including for General Excellence in 2001[1] and 2008[2].
With a paid circulation of 230,000 (the average for the second half of 2008), Mother Jones magazine is the most widely read liberal publication in the United States. Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery serve as co-editors. Jay Harris has served as publisher since 1991.
The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, called Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, opponent of child labor, and self-described "hellraiser." The stated mission of Mother Jones is to produce revelatory journalism that in its power and reach informs and inspires a more just and democratic world.[3]
Mother Jones is published by the Foundation for National Progress, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Mother Jones and the FNP are based in San Francisco.
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2009, it is the longest running continually published magazine of that genre. Initially published in 1930 in the United States as Astounding Stories as a pulp magazine, it has undergone several name changes, primarily to Astounding Science-Fiction in 1938, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction in 1960. In November 1992, its logo changed to use the term "Fiction and Fact" rather than "Fact & Fiction".
One of the major publications of what fans and historians call the Golden Age of Science Fiction and afterward, it has published much-reprinted work by such major SF authors as E.E. Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, Lester del Rey, and many others.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Omni Magazine
OMNI was a science magazine and science fiction magazine published in the USA. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. The first issue was published in October 1978, the last in Winter 1995, with an internet version lasting until 1998.
Omni Magazine: Fiction Index stories that appeared in Omni
www.omnimag.com at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Omni "Shrine" Wiki for sharing info and remembrances about Omni Magazine
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The Nation
The Nation has bureaus in London and Southern Africa, with departments covering Architecture, Art, Corporations, Defense, Environment, Films, Legal Affairs, Music, Peace and Disarmament, Poetry, and the United Nations. The circulation of The Nation was rising and measured 184,296 in 2004 more than double that of The New Republic and higher than conservative papers The Weekly Standard and National Review.[citation needed] The Nation has lost money in all but three or four years of operation and is sustained in part by a group of more than 30,000 donors called The Nation Associates who donate funds to the periodical above and beyond their annual subscription fees.[citation needed]
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Mad Magazine
Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and hugely influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.[1]
The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed[2][3] EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of life and pop culture, politics, entertainment and public figures. Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as freeform articles. Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine's cover, with his face often replacing a celebrity or character that is lampooned within the issue.
National Lampoon
National Lampoon was a ground-breaking American humor magazine started in 1970, originally as a spinoff of the Harvard Lampoon.
During National Lampoon's most successful years, parody of every kind was a mainstay; surrealist content was also central to its appeal. Almost all the issues included long text pieces, shorter written pieces, a section of actual news items (dubbed "True Facts"), cartoons and comic strips. Most issues also included "Foto Funnies" or fumetti, which often featured nudity.
At its best, the magazine's humor was intelligent, imaginative and cutting edge. However, the Lampoon simultaneously promoted a species of crass, bawdy comedy[1]. In both cases Lampoon humor often pushed far beyond the boundaries of what was generally considered appropriate and acceptable. As co-founder Henry Beard described the experience years later: "There was this big door that said, 'Thou shalt not.' We touched it, and it fell off its hinges."
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