I would really love to find the name of an artist that did covers for Omni. He was French, he did the cover art for October, probably early 80's. This cover was a swamp scene with a frog-like girl in its midst. Wonderful! I would love to find this again. Thanks for the help in advance.

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I recall a short story about a Bureaucracy where the government employees got points for giving people the run around! It was hilarious. I would really like to locate this story - title & author. I often mention it to other people as a good example of Bureaucracy gone mad. Does anybody recall this short story?

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I have 144 issues of Omni and would part with them for 4.50 each.I can send a file with a picture of each one. Most are in excellent condition. If you are interested contact me at hywystr@aol.com. You would have to pay shipping.

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I tried tracking this story down years ago, but had no luck. I remember finding this wiki then too. Doesn't look like much has changed; hopefully I'm just missing something.

My memory is always bad, so the information I know about this might be inaccurate. Hopefully not too much so.

I remember reading a story in Omni sometime in the 80s. Probably mid to late 80s, but it could've been earlier than that. I only have impressions of this story, really. The primary thing that has stuck with me is that, in the story, there were these little pieces of paper rolled up and left places. I believe one of them (at least) was left rolled around the wire hanger on the back of a framed picture of some kind. On the pieces of paper were written words to the effect of, "Now that you've found me, can you forget me?"

Trouble is of course that quote could be wrong; it was close to that but could've been a variation, like "now you've found me, but will you forget me?" or "now you've found me, can you forget me?" or something.

The only other impression I have in my mind from that story is that it might've also involved a large boat of some kind, a cruise ship, maybe.

It's funny that this has happened to me. That little meme, of finding something like that on a piece of paper, has always stuck with me; and in the story I guess that was sort of the point, or the idea, that maybe something like that, if read, even if it doesn't really mean anything, could stick with the reader.

Anybody remember this or have any idea what story it might've been?

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Check out my ebay auction. Every issue from Oct 1978 (issue 1) through Feb 1983, except Dec. 1978. 54 issues in all. Definite must for any fan of OMNI who's looking for some rare back issues. Thanks, good luck!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=260429956094

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Can anyone remember the name of a quirky Omni cartoonist. I think it was Atoe. For example, he drew an over-sized man on horizon with line "John was always messing with the laws of perspective". I'm looking for some examples of his work. Big Thanks.

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I have the first issue of OMNI plus a stack of others. I always wondered if they were worth anything more than sentimental artifacts. I remember I would read them from cover to cover every word, they were a nice step up from comics for my thirsty brain.
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I fondly recall a time paradox story that juxtapositioned a future of a dying human race with a character or characters involved with 17th/18th century war in Finland or Iceland.

Am I crazy or did such an article appear in Omni???

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Many of the questions on this list are about specific articles or stories in Omni that folks are looking for. So I had an idea to put the table of contents on-line. Besides being an e-mail list, the Omnishrine at Wetpaint IS a Wiki, so I put a few pages up and copied over the table of contents for the first issue that I typed up. I also dropped a note to Inkblurt to apologize for not touching base with him (him? her?) first. :)
I found a library near me that has the full run of Omni in print (and, wow - does that bring back memories - I could lose myself browsing through those early issues). I copied the first years' table of contents and typed up the October 78 TOC and put it on the Wiki. If other want to help by typing up specific issues, that would be great and is what a Wiki is all about.
I know others have talked about scanning in entire issues and, I guess, putting them on-line. Like folks said, that would be a LOT of work. Plus, distributing scanned copies would violate copyright law. But I think we're safe with just the table of contents ("fair use", etc.)
I know there's a fiction index for Omni stories:
http://zzmaster.best.vwh.net/SF/omni_index.html
but just spot-checking stories from the first three issues, I found a few discrepancies and one story left out of the index. So I think this table of content collaborative project could be useful. I'm not sure if the Omnishrine Wiki is the easiest set of tools, but for the time being, its probably OK. Anyone else want to help? It took me about five minutes to type in this one table of contents (I did in as a four column table in Wordperfect, and the the table copied over perfectly), so I might add a few others, but anyone should feel free to dive in and contribute. Eventually we could hot-link some entries and, i guess, make them searchable. I don't know enough about web programming, but those are possibilities, as far as I know.

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I'm looking for an insert, I remember it feeling like thick construction paper, inside an omni magazine. From looking on the internet I beleive it was from 1987, but am unsure. I'd love to be able to find this text again or get a scan copy of it from someone's collection.

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