Earlier this month, I received an email from Christine Danse, author of the steampunk novella, Island of Icarus. She had seen a blog post I’d made about a year ago regarding the subgenre of biopunk, and raised the question of why it has sat so quietly in the back corner of popular culture. From there, [...]
I’m not normally one to go spreading around the steampunk Christmas cheer (I don’t have a problem with it per se, but it’s not a holiday I celebrate and I’m old enough now to complain about the fact that the build-up starts in August), but today I’m going to be making an exception. That is [...]
by Ay-leen the Peacemaker This article has been previously published on Free the Princess and in Doctor Fantastique’s Show of Wonders, and is reproduced here with the author’s permission Part 1 Multiculturalism: One compass, many directions When one thinks of the words “steampunk” and “multicultural,” there’s a moment of head-scratching. Since steampunk has existed as [...]
Hello everyone! I’m enjoying my last few weeks of break before school starts, so there probably won’t be much regular posting for a bit, but here’s a bit of shameless self-promotion: The second half of my interview at Airship Ambassador, featuring a small hoard of links and my suggestions about what to call a group [...]
This is a few days old, but I thought I should point out… The fabulous Kevin over at Airship Ambassador has put up the first part of an interview with me, in which I address such thorny questions as “How would you define steampunk?” and “Why does everyone call you ‘Spiffy,’ anyway?” It’s fun times, [...]
Speaking of SteamPunk Magazine co-conspirators with band new(ish) blogs, SPM writer, editor, attempted magazine layer-outer and all around dogsbody Allegra Hawksmoor has recently set herself up over at Hawksmoor’s Bazaar. Here, she will be posting makers tutorials, articles and thoughts of interest to steampunks, reviews, ideas, and even the odd poem or two (with odd [...]
A while ago, Dylan — known to readers of SteamPunk Magazine as one of our writers and also as part of our editorial team — set up a new blog for himself over at DylanFox.net. Within this site are now posted thoughts, ramblings, talks about writing and other general madness and weirdness. We haven’t mentioned [...]
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 [...]
Saw this on Twitter and thought I’d pass it along – our fantastic contributor John Reppion has released a collected edition of his series The Trial of Sherlock Holmes. The website has a few pages available online, and it starts off with a fantastic explosion, which makes it awesome by default.
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 [...]
You can now get your grubby little hands on a copy of SteamPunk Magazine #7, which is filled with articles about politics, fashion, and forging your own island. As ever, 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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