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 [...]
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 [...]
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 running [...]
Longest-time Steampunk Magazine conspirator and all-round superstar Margaret Killjoy has two new books out this month, and we encourage you all to get out there and enjoy them, and show Margaret your support. ‘Being The Exploration of One Fine Summer’ is a photobook for the year which documents everything from mountaintop removal sites in Appalachia, [...]
Like zombies? Like super-awesome art? Frequent SPM contributor Juan Navarro, has an awesome webcomic you should check out: The Zombie Years a post-apocalypic, zombie-infested wonderland. You can check out Juan’s awesome art in the magazine too, of course – he has a couple of fantastic pieces in Issue 6!
To encourage Magpie (an editor) to stop posting his person this and that to SteamPunk Magazine, we set him up a nice blog to play in, Birds Before The Storm (www.birdsbeforethestorm.net). You can now go there for all your news about Airships, Anarchism, and Accordions. And of course, news about Magpie.
Pardon for the tardiness of this post, but I’m pleased to say that my interview over at SteamPunk Spectacular has been released in podcast format! I’ve only done a handful of interviews, but I would go so far as to say that this was my favorite so far. The rest of the podcast is quite [...]
As many of you have noticed, issue #4 has not been completed as of yet. First of all, sleep soundly knowing that we continue to work on it apace… there have been a number of setbacks that have been overcome already and more still to face us. I fear to announce something exact, but expect [...]
We are proud as all get out to announce that Rachel E. Pollock of la bricoleuse will have her piece “reflected light” reprinted in an upcoming SteamPunk Anthology, appearing alongside Michael Moorcock, Jay Lake, and Neal Stephenson, among others.
I (Magpie, an editor) will be on tour as a drummer for the wonderful goth band Ego Likeness on part of their fall US tour. So come out and see me hit things with sticks! Or pick up copies of the magazine or the guide! And while the band itself is not SteamPunk, the guitarist [...]
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.
Printed copies are available from Vagrants Among Ruins, who ship from the UK to the rest of the world.
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.
