Hello dear Steampunks! Hopefully you will emerge from tonight’s festivities merely sugar-high and not hungover, but either way, if your revels include Steampunk costuming, please send pictures to blog@steampunkmagazine.com so I can do a post-Halloween post of all your finery. Love, Katie
Next week marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month! If you’re not participating in this month-long writing frenzy (50,000 words in 30 days) you might not understand the panic those of us who ARE participating are currently feeling. By which I mean, the panic I am currently feeling. Because I have no plot. But […]
It makes us very happy that we aren’t the only steampunk-based magazine that’s out there. The more of us there are, the more people are being introduced to steampunk in all its myriad forms, and that is a very, very good thing indeed. In our next issue, we will have an article by Margaret Killjoy […]
Time for a few sorely overdue thanks to the people who helped (advertently or otherwise) with the redesign of this website, and with the design of the new website for Vagrants Among Ruins. First off, many, many, many thanks to the wonderful Brigid Ashwood who provided the artwork in the banner and footer of the […]
I’m not in the UK, but for those of you who are… Announcing… the UK Steampunk Network! The UK Steampunk Network is an entirely un-exclusive club house for anyone involved in, wanting to get in involved in, curious about or entirely unaware of the Steampunk scene in the United Kingdom. The idea is that you […]
Alas, it is Monday. You’ve all probably seen this comic, but it makes me giggle, and therefore makes for a good way to start the week: Via the fabulous folks at Wondermark. Speaking of fabulous folks, Tor.com is having a Steampunk Month, which I’m only 18 days late at noticing. I haven’t had a chance […]
Although we realise that this is long, long overdue, we are nonetheless very happy to reveal the all new, brand new, amazingly-redesigned Steampunk Magazine website for your viewing pleasure. As well as completely overhauling the main website, our forum the Gaslamp Bazaar has also been given a facelift. And with this redesign, we must offer […]
To coincide with the steampunk exhibition currently happening at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, BBC Radio 5’s “Pods and Blogs” programme have put together a special steampunk episode which went out last night. The podcast can be downloaded and listened to via the Pods and Blogs webpage and includes an interview with […]
Thanks to the wonderful Mister Frazer Brown, we are now able to offer the 11”x17” sizes of issues #3 and #4 in imposed format. You can find these on our downloads page which we have re-designed in preparation for the complete website re-launch which you will be seeing within the next couple of days. Thanks […]
I just re-read the epic conversation that’s unfolding over on the post about Professor Calamity, and while it was fascinating, it was also pointed out that that particular thread was not the place for that discussion. So here we go! What the all-knowing Google turned up on Steampunk and politics, for your reading pleasure: Does […]
This long-awaited issue is our thickest yet, coming in at 118 pages of mad science, history, interviews, fashion, and fiction! It can also be downloaded for free from our downloads page.
Printed copies are available from Combustion Books.
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.
