As part of an upcoming project taking place across the steampunk community, we were recently asked by the Gatehouse Gazette if we would like to write something on the topic of Victorientalism for their latest issue. So we, in turn, asked the wonderful Jha (who has written an introduction to race and steampunk for issue [...]
Well, it’s definitely 2010. Alternative energy solutions have become more important than ever, and the politically correct world we all live in is certainly a far cry from the belching smoke stacks of Victoria’s empire. One company, however, has managed to stick a foot into the best of both worlds. Why not use the awesome [...]
Over the holidays, I got to talking to my Dad about cars. “I brought my first car when I was sixteen,” he told me, “and it was horrible. I had to completely take the engine to pieces and rebuild it to get it to work properly.”
The internal combustion engine is a simple beast at heart [...]
Image re-produced from Beyond Victoriana, courtesy of Kory Lynn Hubbell
We’ll be completely honest with you: we don’t really read blogs. That’s probably a part of the reason why we’re so bad at keeping this one updated (although that’s changing as we kidnap… I mean find new people that we can talk into posting any interesting [...]
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 Steampunk Have [...]
We have been shocked and appalled (and not to mention saddened) to hear that long-time Steampunk Magazine conspirator, author and all-round inspiration Professor Calamity has been arrested as a result of the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh about a week ago. He is facing two felonies for allegedly running a Twitter account — accused of [...]
Right now in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, marked and unmarked police cars are raiding private homes and buildings (and cars and garages) on a witchhunt for anarchists. [more from Bruce Sterling's blog] Next week, the Republican National Convention is taking place in St. Paul, and the police are intent on [...]
To "celebrate" the incarceration of over 1% of the US population, we are now offering steampunk magazine free to those behind bars. Note that this makes 1 in 15 african americans eligible, as well as 1 in 36 hispanic people. We abhor the racist prison-industrial system. Unfortunately, most prisoners will be unable to read this [...]
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.
