' ITJII APRIL 1986 $2.5C MOOD ALTERING TT:!h>' EXPERIMENTAL PULLOUT SAMPLER INSIDE -P. 50 L0VEINTHE21ST CENTURY:money talks-p. 78 I PLUS:WORLD'S LARGEST o ! iJZZLE COLLECTION annrui VOL. 8 NO. 7 APRIL 1986 EDITOR IN CHIEF & DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE PRESIDENT. KATHY KEETON EDITOR: GURNEY WILLIAMS_ III EXECUTIVE EDI "OR- PA RICL ADCROFT EDITOR AT LARGE: DICK TERESI GRAPH C> DRIGTOR: rR,\\< - VIM": MANAGING EDITOR: PAUL HILTS ART DIRECTOR AMY SEISS! FR CONTENTS PAGE FIRST WORD Opinion Sherry King 6 OMNIBUS Contributors 10 COMMUNICATIONS Correspondence 14 FORUM Dialogue 16 SPACE Comment Peter Garrison 20 BREAKTHROUGHS Technology Steve Fox 22 EXPLORATIONS Travel Tim Sandler 24 MIND Behavior Paul Bagne 26 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Computers Joel Davis 30 STARS Astronomy Jefl Hecht 32 CONTINUUM Data Bank 35 SNAKE EYES Fiction Tom Maddox 44 SCENTIMENTAL JOURNEYS Article Pamela Weintraub 48 TEST YOUR SCENTSABILITY Questionnaire 50 PERMAFROST Fiction Roger Zelazny 54 SHARED DESTINIES Pictorial Robert Maselio 62 SARAH RUNS THE WEASEL Ficlion Walter Jon Williams 70 Pan II JOHN MONEY Interview Kaihleen Stein 78 wi MATH-ART Pictorial Judith Hooper 88 i ANTIMATTER UFOs, etc. 95 rj LIVING WINDOW Phenomena Jean-Claude Revy 124 H GAMES Diversions Scot Morris 132 LAST WORD Humor Terry Rur.e 134 Remove the :na^:< end witness the birth and development of creativity—the rose and the .butterfly—in the deepest recesses ot the mind. Photo illustrator Eile'Schuster produced this image for the advertising firm of Wolf, Blumberg, & Krody in Cincinnati. A OMNI ' - . ,' birth of if. i i.y, i i Three years alter the my daughter, my i I Sarah, was about to nave another baby, Ahef a few' months, i shil wasnt pregnan:. .. -i it , I . bulihK.'irYie. was different. Afl.es seven arid iv.v m.;. .:! a half hours of later, bgave birl'h to my my doctor put .me. on Cjomid, a feruhy ds.ic. in' order. to regulafo thorn. The next month : As futuristic as this sounds, it was, in I' became pregnan!- all four oi us were fact, the culmination of fa.riy natural, although ecstatic; Caroiee and L;r.:o Td have iheii unusual, cin urn .;. \c My oiciei ;? baby, sito'.my life would goi bacx io Caroiee. had ahy.stereciom.y when, she was normal. At 15 weeks : had a routine progalai !!: '.ly^enfytorie. 3ev..-:-; .-*;>": -< when.she ^ :..!( ii, .::;.. „ ould Mno n: . .' .11. '.!, :;' i 001 : :i !!.:! i. .'MS hi vi i. ;enr lore sonogra-: . , .. >-..: desperately wanted a chto.But because-' :u. :! ,!.:: i. jad Caioleo had no uterus. and no eggs. she to.ha.yc a'D& were ali devastated. : C We . u Could not c; A-aiii : 1 ' gatherings. and friends" pregnancies "famiiy project. '. We were, however, able : . became im n Sine ii ::. , to convince her'fnatwe should Keep trying, in. .since knew- rhopd . now we that a pregnancy f ' . the press He realized that n was poss:b e was possible. :i i lor Carolee-io hayo a baby iha! was . !.' '..'( lonth.s, but i I ...:;: .:.!:.,', -.\i -. ! : : ,. .!. i. wililuu ix u.ruer io; ihei: Florida. Monthly thps Iran Figrlda hi ! '. /, baby thai Bo: , .:!: i . ! ..:;.:;: rm an. ui .',;.: '::.: I m-or I i .' » I. i „ FIRST The next- time was 'alone with mysisi.e-' th d bu s art > n 'I . I she sa;o have scv vexing to ask. you. u i ; • You don't i ri away our ias chance. We heard vie fetal oea;t . :: I .;:.:. ii WJORD you say !(ll ;!..: : aye you Bvci l."K ard el 3L/f- .gate mother and played il over the phone lor Cao-.yee 3y Snerry.Kiftg " ; , , mediately. I !;.. andtrnio. At 17 wee-ks I had a'uu.oeei Jesis . .. I. ' "'."-' ''eyes, Nothing o^so.nad r.o be sak.) wo both. :ri I i i< . :! * 'After seven starred told irn : 'h. logs : weeping. When wo my 5he aw he- baby en '"and a half hours orver'y husband. Owen, ail he could say was. When the anin^o results came n ipree :! % about)!.'' We. exhaustively r V .'.' i ,:; ..: ne difficult labor,. pro- VVedeoioed 'oa; when fne babv was I gaveblrih to my sister's -x was the on!v way Caroiee and due. we would be in Boston Our 'ertiiiiy . ' baby, my niece.*- child shat was at least doclor would. i our ob: . ,iv in pari genetically reia-od to thorn ooih. Although we wantog to.- have'; arotboh baby, 'dlkr- iroin an we decided .what-: had had witk my daugirer Sarah, wno ! . and 'Ernie's desife'.for a chile. was rjorn ,, i"i e; . n ; .-<: ; i < . :l Ev i i fJe e eve ibis per. ThiStii .nlvwasn ,u and e'O still be baooy present for the birth but so were Caroiee i'tii . ready had Ss-sh.- Ernie liiv un i. : ! i.-iu. I .vhio ore also eons. My husband an.;; i ;s oidgashioneri. came r io: iue cord would not beatalet. i r. i.'Viereourso cui'ing ; Ailorseven and a null molts ol ' . while I was k y;ng :o oo ice! -e -paternity very ditlicul ador, I gave hu sislor': ,' ' could noi oe n doubt Also, my age was a' 'U :..! I ii U. '.!! i i I.:' i ; I ict.oi Buhl. could have amni: rm i ;r!.oiTio ou- said. 1 ; ii . ; > and r ihe tetus hac geoohc cooiems. we Ian & d . i : vi i: '.' .aii'agreec thai fecuid' terminate 'he ; ,n-,e lh. 1 : ins cine ital 'ilitygy umbiilcal core. I. gave her to her morher T 1 Caretoo a rro .Ernies marriage (solid) and Caroiee. Ernie cut Ine cord. here wash a What we .would 'tell other people including gryoyo in tncroom... : our daughter- (the truth). When Caroiee forui our I irni-y prc-ji ot na been a :: ..'. ii; i : .: and.Cofarrnedcu' parents, they were very success, w v ! r i i -: !'i 3::-. pie . ; i r.ari a vve warn inlerf :e couples io rza ikai .:. ioi Affifici it i isen"iinationjs- his is a rea: (and inexpeusive) option foi oaiffe''' she said. lor them #/.ihey riave a kjvirxj ihe; id or ieiatlve :, < We found an inieri iy pen srm tl a irni to bi a : . moh : i yellow pages and -made an appoinunon; \c< ("jowovei oi su'io. n : : .. I; ihePexidav He mo; ; ,'i \ . <:< c should bo done tor jovo, noi moi'Oy. i :.c . s; plain-: o hov oins.er't Krisibn is nov o;ji heakhy ' it wui without spilling the sperm, and sent us on and beautiful. I love her as a niece. She . ii w. ;,..:..:! . that's grr>w up knowing ihou; h. : oeptir.ri - i. ii : i . i . :;.., ho; , .'. : grryws .......... I older, her parenls wiyfiil m 'he details. simple. L'rrve /jcu*. i ac ns soei By b the cervical cap ahd men hand It io Caroiee, o: suriogo'es. What was irr;i-inkaoio it ^.:... :!!. ,. ... who would carry to me .(We would, joke v i ..!,: DO ' that Caroiee was he iirsi'to carry the baby'/ ,-„;,;.;;/; I .would simply insert I hre'h- — CONTRIBUTORS Dnnruii Imagine wrapping your fingers will" gauze. Weinlraub. who often suffers from allergies for S9.99. According to some experts, their blocking your ears wilh colton, wearing to floral scents, initially dreaded the idea project offers insights into the current layers of sunglasses on your eyes. No of investigating olfactory laboratories. and future state of friendship, one would choose to live permanently with "I envisioned people taking me through Humans aren't ihe only organisms wiih a such sensory barriers. But twentieth- rooms congested with de-par imenl-sfore need for bono ng. according to "Shared century humans routinely the perlumes," instead. barrage most she says. "But I was Desfinies" (page 62). With text by Robert ancient of senses—smell—with deodor- struck by the wafting aromas of chocolate, Masello, this pictor a exposes such unlikely ants, air fresheners, filters, pads, oils, fresh baked dough, and licorice, all couplings as Ihe clown fish and the sea and incense. The effeefs of this bombard- created infhe lab." anemone, and the mutually supportive ment may be more profound than anyone Olfactory researchers have found that relationship of algae and fungus. dreamed. Today research is reestablishing we all produce odorprints as distinctive as This month's fiction explores love scenar- the sense of smell as one of the prime fingerprints. But psychoendocrinologist ios, too. In "Snake Eyes" (page 44), by determinants ol psychological mood, John Money also believes we each possess Tom Maddox, a former soldier wrestles with biological rhythms, and even choice of mate. a lovemap, a personal imprint of what behavior precipitated by his hardwired In "Scentimental Journeys" (page 48), sexually attracts us to another. And in this nervous system. His involvement with an senior editor Pamela Weintraub examines month's Interview (page 78), Omni staff equally evolved woman releases involuntary the ongoing eftorls to undersiand ihe writer Kathleen Sie/n asks Money to discuss passions that may destroy him. "It's neurophysiological function of odors and his concept of the Ihree-dimensional map somewhat of an evolutionary tale," Maddox how they regulate the body and influence the of the human sexual brain. Etched during says, "As the human race develops and mind. As a result of such research, childhood, the contours of our sexual changes, the way we love and lust will also pioneers in the field of aroma therapy, for identify determine what we look for in our have to alter." instance, will revolutionize the home and intimale relationships. And thwarted sex In "Permafrost" (page 54), Roger Zetazny workplace with scenls that arouse us, relax play, Money believes, can damage natural focuses on love and hate and paradoxical us, and ease us into sleep.