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Omni, vol. 1 no. 1

Frank Kendig, Ben Bova, eds.

October 1978

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: James B. Hall, Valley of the Kilns  //  Ron Goulart, Invisible Stripes  //  Theodore Sturgeon, Time Warp  //  

Isaac Asimov, Found!

Magazine: Omni

Editors (alphabetically listed): Patrice Adcroft  |  Ben Bova  |  Ellen Datlow  |  Keith Ferrell  |  Frank Kendig  |  

Robert Sheckley  |  Dick Teresi  |  Pamela Weintraub  |  Gurney Williams, III

Language: English

ISSN: 0149-8711

Issues: 184, 1978 – 1995, 2017 – present

Websites: Omni Magazine  |  Galactic Central  |  Internet Archive  | ISFDB  |  Wikipedia

Bibliographic comments: US magazine featuring articles on science, science fiction, and ufology.

• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.

Omni, vol. 1 no. 4

Frank Kendig, Ben Bova, eds.

January 1979

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Paul J. Nahin, Newton's Gift  //  Tony Holkham, New Is Beautiful  //  Jack C. Holdeman, II, To Race the Wind  

//  Dean R. Lambe, The Hole Thing  //  Nancy Kress, And Whether Pigs Have Wings  //  Isaac Asimov, Strike!

Omni, vol. 3 no. 5

Ben Bova, Robert Sheckley, eds.

February 1981

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Yasutaka Tsutsui, Standing Woman  //  Paddy Chayefsky, Altered States (excerpt)  //  Bob Buckley, Where

No Man Goes

Omni, vol. 3 no. 12

Ben Bova, Robert Sheckley, eds.

September 1981

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  •  'The Songs of Distant Earth' is not the 1958 story of the same name, but a three-page proposal written in 1979 for

      Stanley Kubrick as a possible film which was never made.

Fiction: Wayne Wightman, The Fighter  // Jack Dann, Going Under  //  Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth  

//  Frank L. Calloway, Mr. Mouse

Omni, vol. 4 no. 11

Ben Bova, Ellen Datlow, Dick Teresi, eds.

August 1982

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Frank Herbert, The White Plague (excerpt, part 2 of 2)  //  Kono Tensei, Triceratops

Omni, vol. 5 no. 1

Ellen Datlow, Dick Teresi, eds.

October 1982

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (excerpt)  //  Rudyard Kipling, A Matter of Fact  //  Robert Sheckley, The

Eye of Reality  //  Frederik Pohl, Farmer on the Dole

Omni, vol. 6 no. 1

Ellen Datlow, Dick Teresi, eds.

October 1983

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Robert Silverberg, Multiples  //  John Updike, During the Jurassic  //   Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn

(excerpt)  //  Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort (part 2 of 2)

Omni, vol. 6 no. 8

Ellen Datlow, Dick Teresi, eds.

May 1984

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Harvey Jacobs, My Rose and My Glove  //  Arthur C. Clarke, Transit of Earth

Omni, vol. 7 no. 2

Ellen Datlow, Gurney Williams, III, eds.

November 1984

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Robert Silverberg, Hail to the Chief  //  Marta Randall, Thank You, Mr. Halifax  //  Barry N. Malzberg, To Mark

the Times We Had  //  Jim Aikin, Dance for the King  //  Ben Bova, Out of Time  //  Norman Spinrad, The Man Who  //  

Isaac Asimov, The Ten-Second Election

Omni, vol. 7 no. 6

Ellen Datlow, Gurney Williams, III, eds.

March 1985

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, Michael Swanwick, The Gods of Mars  //  M. G. Jacobs, Minor Surgery and a

Poker Game  //  William F. Wu, Hong's Bluff

Omni, vol. 7 no. 12

Ellen Datlow, Gurney Williams, III, eds.

September 1985

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  •  'The Ark' features a child Laotian immigrant to the USA who becomes entangled with the fates of endangered

      animals in the Los Angeles Zoo.

Fiction: Bruce McAllister, The Ark  //  Lewis Shiner, Bruce Sterling, Mozart in Mirrorshades

Omni, vol. 9 no. 8

Patrice Adcroft, Ellen Datlow, eds.

May 1987

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Thomas M. Disch, Rude Awakening  //  Arthur C. Clarke, On Golden Seas

Omni, vol. 10 no. 2

Patrice Adcroft, Ellen Datlow, eds.

November 1987

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  •  'E-Ticket to Namland' is set in Vietnam.

Fiction: Lewis Shiner, T Rebels  //  Neal Barrett, Jr., Diner  //  Dan Simmons, E-Ticket to Namland

Omni, vol. 10 no. 12

Patrice Adcroft, Ellen Datlow, eds.

September 1988

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  •  'Schrödinger's Kitten' is set in George Alec Effinger's 'Budayeen' universe.

Fiction: George Alec Effinger, Schrödinger's Kitten

Omni, vol. 12 no. 10

Patrice Adcroft, Ellen Datlow, eds.

July 1990

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Ben Bova, Einstein's Law  //  Isaac Asimov, Latter-Day Martian Chronicles  //  Pat Murphy, Latter-Day Martian

Chronicles  //  Bruce Sterling, Latter-Day Martian Chronicles  // Joan D. Vinge, Latter-Day Martian Chronicles  //  

Gregory Benford, Latter-Day Martian Chronicles  //  Richard Calder, Mosquito

Omni, vol. 13 no. 2

Ellen Datlow, ed.

November 1990

Omni Publications International Ltd.

Library edition: CBR

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Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Ted Chiang, Tower of Babylon  //  Gardner Dozois, Après Moi