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Omni Magazine raedi FUTURE FILMS 7 GREAT DIRECTORS SNEAK PREVIEW THEIR OWN MOVIES FOR 2001 A.D. UNK: RUSSIA'S GREATEST THREAT TO WESTERN SCIENCE 8 MYSTICAL SHORT STORIES THE SECRET LIVES AND DREAMS OF ABORIGINES onnrui EDITOR IN CHIEF & DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE PRESIDENT: KATHY KEETON EDITOR: PATRICE ADCROFT KM API IICS DIRECTOR -RANK DEVINO EDITOR AT LARGE: DICK TERESI MANAGING EDITOR STEVE FOX APT DIRECTOR DWAYNE FLINCHUM CONTENTS PAGE FIRST WORD An End lo Hunger Loret Miller Ruppe 6 OMNIBUS .Contributors 10 COMMUNICATIONS Correspondence 14 FORUM Australian Dreaming Susanna Cuyler 16 EARTH Fowl Play Caiherine Caufield 22 SPACE Asleep in the Cosmos Sieve Nadis 26 EXPLORATIONS Pirate Societies Bill Lawren 30 STARS Martian Life Search Eleanor Smith 32 CONTINUUM Physics. Hollywood Style, 35 ANIGHT AT 1 HE MOVES Future Movies— David Lynch, John Sayles, Mel Brooks, Susan Seidelrnan, Richard Attenborough, Michael Douglas. John Schlesinger, and critics Gene Siskel and Roger Eber! 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Omni by George Lucas's company Industrial will play role in a question is posed; curiosity, satisfied. ooi:or Paince Adcroit simoly wanted Light and Magic a major the pictorial And when an individual sheds new light on a date with director David Lynch. As a shaping future movies. And "Reel Illusions" (page 70) displays the a subject, it may alter our view of the journalist, the most discreet way to meet oi innovators, are world. Such is the case with this month's him would be to write a story about him. work of this band who Interview (page 80). While visiting Australia But being absorbed in Omni, Adcroft responsible for such wonders as Elliott bike. to promote her book Woman of Tomorrow, doesn't have the time to write much ol and E.T, flying past the moon on a Omni president Kathy Keeton met aborig- anything beyono business lellers, memos, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia racing ine Eric' Willmot. An educator, inventor, and copious notes scrawled in the through the woods on speeder bikes. filmmaker, and novelist, Willmot is a man margins of her editors' manuscripts. So and Indiana Jones narrowly escaping giant stone ball. of two worlds —with one foot in his sne oecideu to ask several directors being squashed by a aboriginal culture, the other in white including Lynch, of course— to devise Every story, of course, requires an society. He believes Australia's native future tilm treatments for Omni. angle— a particular voice— and that's peoples can teach us a great deal about She turned the idea over to associate what makes each story different. You can, human evolution. "The common miscon- editor Murray Cox, who coordinated for example, give eight science-fiction will ception is that the aborigines are backward the project. His team included contributing authors a single topic, and they primitives on the way to extinction." editor Marion Long—with her seemingly produce eight unique stories, as in 'The Keeton comments. "But they are a unique inexhaustible resources—and editorial Visitation and Other Divine Encounters" editor Ellen people, and it's important that we know assistant Mary Salinger Gincksman. What (page 54). Fiction Datlow more about them in order to learn more movie, Long asked the directors, would commissioned six short religious tales about our own origins." you most like lo rrakc? And what future from such masteriu slorv.elicrs as Cbnnie Willis. Zelazny, and The initial idea l.or a story can be technologies would you use in it to expand Greg Bear, Roger Bishop. "A later broad —a writer is interested in, say, your art? Michael seventh was of initial group," Russian science. Or it can be specific: Though the directors were enthusiastic recommended by one the -j edited Fifth Why have 44 Americans won Nobel a do I ;he projoc".. a low expressed recalls Datlow, who The that ancthei ' immaker might Omni Book olScience Fiction (Zebra), prizes in physics, compared with only . concern seven Russians when the Russians always steal their concepts. The iinal result "And in the middle of the project, another seem to have the upper hand? includes creative input from Susan story just appeared on my desk," Sometimes reporters may wonder about Seidelman.
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