r/RetroFuturism • u/hotbowlsofjustice • 2d ago

Futuristic City According to Omni

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u/StellarOverdrive 2d ago

I miss Omni.

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u/SpyreFox 2d ago

Archive.org has a collection from 1978 to 1995 you can look through.

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u/khari_lester 17h ago

Hello, favorite link of the month.

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u/richfx01 2d ago

It was so good. I was too young to get a lot of the stories but I read it cover to cover each month anyway

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u/tothatl 2d ago

Back when the future could be dystopic and cyberpunk, but it still was something significantly different from today to look forward to.

Alas post-cyberpunk popped the illusion with its gritty realistic thrillers and Stross' law: the future will be 90% of the same as today, with 8-9% of predictable existing trends and 1-2% of really weird stuff nobody could predict.

Funnily (or not, depends on your take) we are getting again into weird future territory.

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u/thrillhouse354 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is a really good collection if you love 70's-80's sci fi.

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u/tothatl 2d ago

Ah, the neon airbrushed future of the 80s.

It has a nice touch of unreality by its diffuse light sources, yet you know it could be somewhat made into reality, with a lot of neon and electricity budget.

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u/oandroido 2d ago

Ah, airbrushes.

0321 was the best.

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u/topselection 2d ago

In the future, everything will have lots of bloom!

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u/revtim 2d ago

The sf from that magazine was top notch

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u/Jombhi 2d ago

I have 95% of Omni's print run under my desk at work. Sometimes I like to pick an issue at random and google everything in it to see how it all turned out for each story.

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u/honeyflowerbee 2d ago

Good-bye, Mother, I'm going to that big car park in the sky.

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u/SpaceMan420gmt 2d ago

Before we had these phones in our pocket, I used to go to my college library if I had a break between classes and read this magazine! ‘95 or so.