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EW PERILS OF LIFE INZER WHEN GALAXIES COLLIDE LISTENING FOR ALIENS . onnrui VOL. 9 NO. 11 AUGUST 1987 EDITOR IN CHIEF & DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE PRESIDENT: KATHY KEETON EDITOR: PATRICE ADCROFT GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: FRANK DEVINO EDITOR AT LARGE. DICK TERESI MANAGING EDITOR: STEVE FOX ART DIRECTOR: DWAYNE FLINCHUM Philosophy for the Next Yevgeny Yevtushenko Century Camp Omni COMMUNICATIONS Correspondence Stewart Brand Perils in Zero G A-cestis Oberg Death by Stress? 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Subscriptions: U.S., oersens mentioned n the iiclion or semitiction and real places or persons living or deec is of and protective, the vastness and-: u ada i-. pht/n I-&00 AFO SL« one- yea- Canada arc: e sewherc S2R one year. Singe copies £3.00 in U.S.. AFO, dry earth and vibrant fire ;wg iifiei-1 The biibhs-er disclaims al.respor-sibilitytc ret am jnso.icitoc matter, a,- : Omni or its editors become line property ol the magazine. dominated by The Cloud Cube. the sox' piooertv o Crmi F.j citations 'ntcrnational Ltd. Letters sent to 4 OMNi Olio Of til' i or! grille gMj v ith . idealism in our world today is the absence i jrphi lies i lying mu They jog right ol a new philosophy' We need a new past a mugging victim and tail to hear thai will all the philosophy sum up tragedies ; eyes with peepholes on floors. Many avoid: another—and this ttmo fmai- of u$ living in enormous apartment build- tragedy. This philosophy must develop a ings don't know our neighbors on the new ethics that will unite rather than same floor and don't want to know them. divide people. Humanity is pregnant with this new philosophy, which is kicking on the planet7 from Inside, seeking a way out. Instead ol being a window on the ' I have no intention of olfehng recipes * ft LjV&L^a '' t' V n f^frirf r'f m?7 1 for creating ideals Clever recipe givers a curtain for blocking out the world. The I" rd of human lists. Not everyone is able to bo a suffering with a cloying dressing of hero, but everyone has the opportunity advertising on the TV news leads to the nor to be a scoundrel. habit I }s On the other hand, I believe there is instead ol sharing them. nothing highei than the idea' of human Think of the time we all spend at parlies: brotherhood. Even a family will tail apart if thai are merely counterfeit human the concept of brotherhood is missing contact. Just try responding to "How.are- . War between nations is nenbrbtnerhood you'" seriously. Say thai things are not good al home, you're not sleeping nights, gloating, insincerity, lack of frankness— you're contemplating the best way to against someone close to you is commit suicide and that you have'fost u^^.'ti^djttyi, t *ffid>ife£F^2*£&Jj the nonbr tlierl t elves, and that the questioner will back away from you, IAJDRD will make universal brotherhood possible. Brotherhood, ii given a chance, is an be haying problems at home himself By Yevgeny Yevtushenko Ideal that can be- held in common by or may,be-up all night thinking about the people of the most varying political and same things yet he can't admit it because ^Nations are losing the religious views. he's afraid of appearing weak. Speaking ability to hear each other's Idealists are often laughed at. They are openly ol your weaknesses rs human considered eccentric, unrealistic, and strength. Pretending lo be strong is a heartbeats, Many sometimes even crazy. At the ruin of the weakness thai can turn into a disease. international negotiations century the bourgeois in the Russian n in Hi cik r l Ijjji 1 break down because I the 'parochial-school teacher Tsiolkovsk-y, time that secret services worldwide are they are built on mutual 1 i-* 1 who made blueprints for interplanetary c*^r*?fy L uS* } itlji rS V^]F/^*S accusations instead spacecraft Yet he invented the principle dropping ig tlp^ rng ' on which out spacecraft are built. If the abillt, § I BMJ of on mutual confessions,^ founder of a new philosophy could become Many international political negotiations not just international but interplanetary breal dov n because! r bunt on people would laugh at him, too. Yet we need such a philosophy. confessions The twentieth century devours ideals. II Calling one government the' symbol of gave birth to chemical and atomic all bad on the earth, and one's own weapons, the Holocaust. Hiroshima, government the symbol of all good-is genocide in Cambodia, terrorism, sex fating drugs—television. Technical only when political negotiations are built: progress turned out to be a synonym for on mutual courage spiritual regression. The twentieth century The most important thing facing ustiqw' also killed our revolutionary idealists II is to save the world from nuclear-catastro- murdered Mahatnia Gandhi, Martin Luther phe. If we do save it: will it be a world King, Che Guevara, John F Kennedy, without ideals based only on a biological Aldo Moro, and Olof Palme, deal? Estranged from one another, will To the gigantic number of the starving is constantly added the gigantic number of physical survival? Will we replace the . the spiritually starved. Acknowledged spiritual hunger, however, is not terrible detente, promising only temporariness, What is terrible is in I spiritual and undepenaability? Will we give up and hunger especially when it seems like betray the best of humanity? Or will we comfort Fear of burglary makes people recognize a world where all religious and put numerous locks on their doors: But at political views are accepted? the same time, they put locks on their nrypeny Yevtushenko is an internationally acclaimed Russian pool His book Almost at see what's inside. For many the stanrjard- the End was recently released by Henry- t^.el'«i.J^tir^!(V.'v£^.ri C"5^^iri^3 Halt and Company This piece vras translated bur a salvation Instead ol listening to the by Antonina W. Bonis, — ONTRIBUTOR onnruiBU! THE OMNI ALPHABESTIARY of year. That's where ear Folks, in Wilks's art than there seems to be here. Antarctica this time science-fiction convention since This is an untamed habitat and could the annual world I know it's been a while to health. Some of will be held. And two stones we published you've heard from me. I get the be hazardous my fallen prey to last year— Greg Bear's "Tangents" I campers have same complaint from friends. wish I my fellow [January 1986], which was named the could say, "Having a wonderful time; wish information overload, and I'm glad you are, best short- story of the year by the Science you were here." But this isn't like any insisted that I get all those shots. There Fiction Writers of America, and Roger summer camp I've ever been in. They say however, researchers developing vaccines that might be even more effective. Zelazny's "Permafrost" [April 1986]—are it's the real world; I think it's a simulation, Jeff Kluger's "Body nominated for Hugo awards. It would only it doesn't fly like NASAs computerized, According to hypersonic plane fantasies ["Silicosms," Doubles" [page 48], these miracle drugs be nice to be there if they win. are derived from the body's own proteins. Of course, the way travel arrangements page 52], I expect to step out the door here, I'd probably end onto Broadway one day and hear someone The combinations of amino acids may are made around in That wouldn't be declare, "This has only been a test." one day be manipulated to treat and even up back Kansas. entirely bad, however. I could visit Auntie NASAs test flights actually remind me prevent cancer, as well as produce Em, well as author PatCadigan of my video games at home.

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