It's a new medium and the web society is still trying to figure out how to make money. A recent issue featured Dr. Jane Goodall warning about the approaching millenium, a chat with cult deprogrammer Ford Greene and an investigation of the cult mind set such as the one that recently destroyed the lives of so many people in the the Heaven's Gate mass suicide. Readers can take the interactive Delphic Poll and test their visionary skills by predicting the date of future events. OMNI first instituted its Delphic poll in 1978 when it asked readers to predict when, if ever, the USSR and communism would fall due to an internal revolution. The Delphic Poll is now totally interactive.
Participants can see a running tally of response totals in real time.
The change from print to online has allowed OMNI to explore these interactive options on the Web. The first was by Jim Patrick Kelly, Rachel Pollack,Pat Cadigan, and Nancy Kress. The second was by Maureen McHugh, Karen Joy Fowler, Terry Bisson, and Rosaleen Love. We've been publishing new fiction by James P. Blaylock. We asked Ellen to give us a hint or two about the new fiction redesign.