Next weekend in San Antonio, Texas is AetherFest. This will be our first time at AetherFest, (and my first time in San Antonio), but after meeting the organizers at other events across the country, we’re excited as hell. I (Margaret Killjoy, the current editor) will be performing as an accordionist for the first time in […]
SteamPunk Magazine editor Margaret Killjoy is on tour with his book What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, the steampunk Adventure-Of-Your-Own-Choosing novel lauded by Cory Doctorow and Alan Moore among others. The tour will include stops at three wondrous steampunk events, including the Steampunk Ball in Pittsboro (NC), AetherFest in San Antonio (TX), and […]
I just found out that SteamPunk Magazine art editor Juan Navarro (who has been illustrating for us since issue #2, I believe!) has put his indie comic book publishing company, Creature Entertainment Studios, up on kickstarter. This isn’t an untested idea: the company is made up with experienced but day-jobbed comics creators who make all […]
The next Steampunk Anthology, Steampunk Revolution, is coming out this autumn. The estimable editor Ann VanderMeer has just announced the TOC! Fiction “Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak “On Wooden Wings” by Paolo Chikiamco “To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar “The Seventh Expression of the Robot General” by Jeffrey Ford “Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham” by Lev […]
Steampunk Emma Goldman has posted a review of Catastrophone Orchestra over on her blog anachro-anarcho. Most of the stories contained within the Catastrophone Orchestra reader first appeared in the pages of our magazine, so of course we’re proud to see their work collected in this book! From the review: I hear a lot about steampunk […]
Dear readers! SteamPunk Magazine is looking for additional reviewers. We’ve decided to expand our reviews section. We’re looking for people with: decent writing skills (bonus: review-writing experience) literacy in steampunk media an awareness of feminism, anti-colonialism, anti-heterosexism, etc. We don’t pay except, of course, in that secret reward reviewers get everywhere: free stuff. Interested parties […]
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.
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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.
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