With Issue #5 well on the way to completion (and appearing on a website near you in the next week or so) we thought that it was about time that we posted something of a news feature.
To begin with, a couple of items that relate to the magazine:
For starters, MAKE magazine have an [...]
Steampunk Magazine #6 is now out. At 104 pages its our biggest issue to date, and it can be downloaded for free from our downloads page.
All issues of the magazine are now also available for order from Vagrants Among Ruins, from where you can order copies of the magazine from outside the Americas. Those of you in the Canada, Central and South America and the United States can still order the magazine through the Vagrants sister publishing collective, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.
BEFORE THE age of homogenization and micro-machinery, before the tyrannous efficiency of internal combustion and the domestication of electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments. It was a time where art and craft were united, where unique wonders were invented and forgotten, and punks roamed the streets, living in squats and fighting against despotic governance through wit, will and wile.
Even if we had to make it all up.
SteamPunk Magazine is a publication that is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction.
It just may be the most spectacular magazine to ever fight against the spectacle, and it is free. Or as cheap as we can possibly get it to you. Using the latest in Creative Commons technology, we undermine the fascism of copyright while protecting ourselves from direct co-option.
We sell the magazine for as close to cost as we can manage, and we offer it for free PDF download for printing at home.
