This fabulous free magazine dropped through my letterbox this morning – Totally Telford (The great outdoors edition).

It is the first issue of a magazine produced by Telford and Wrekin Council.It has lovely ideas for places to walk, cycle and generally enjoy the outdoors. There are features on local towns, local shopping opportunities and a couple of local celebrities.

The ‘your photos section’ features photos from Shropshire 1000 milers.

It has given me inspiration for some of my next local adventures.

Omni Magazine was one of my favourite reads in my younger years.  The magazine covered exploratory science and science fiction of the day.

I read and collected the magazines for a number of years, but my collection has long since gone.  Occasionally there have been certain articles and Sci Fi stories that I have wished to re-read in respect of the world as it is today and I have regretted the loss of my magazines….

A recent post from the ‘Daily Grail‘ alerted me to the fact that all the magazines are now all available for download.

Originally published in late 1978, running through till 1995, Omni covered a lot of the same ground that we do here on TDG – interesting new science, science on the fringe, and even science ‘beyond’ the fringe through its wonderful science fiction shorts (authored by SFF giants such as Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Robert Heinlein, Stanislaw Lem, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, and Ben Bova, along with art by the likes of H.R.Giger and other wonderful artists).

I wonder how many of the predictions have come true…