OMNI Magazine (complete) on Internet Archive

[[deleted user]]

The complete run of OMNI Magazine is now available on the Internet Archive! Awesome news for fans of shorter SF/F!

OMNI published from 1978 to 1995. It was quite a departure from previous sci-fi magazines of the era. Unlike the digest-sized pulp magazine format of the time, OMNI was premium format, full-size, printed on thick glossy paper in full color. It carried both fact and fiction articles, reviews, interviews, artwork, and stories by some of the era's top talent. (Sort of Scientific American meets Analog.) The collection also includes the 6 "Best of OMNI" anthologies.

Now you can download as much of it as you want at the OMNI Magazine Archive .

I've already sampled a couple of issues. It's available in multiple formats, however I think the PDF is the best bet. The epub & mobi versions were produced by automatic text recognition software, which had a regretable error rate and loses all the original layout and formatting. (Borderline readable, in my opinion.) The PDF, on the other hand, is pretty much a straight collection of scanned images of the pages (ads included; Ah, the nostalgia.) And the double-page spreads are captured will in the PDF.

(Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.)

[[deleted user]]

Woot! Woot! i rember Omni...good mag. :)

[Jim]

Spooky1947 wrote: "Woot! Woot! i rember Omni...good mag. :)"

Ditto!

Thanks, G33z3r!

[Neil]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip!