After organising the Second Ever SteamPunk Magazine Steampunk Soiree in Oxford last year, we wanted to get our teeth into doing something else, and now we are!
Over the weekend of 19th and 20th June this year, SteamPunk Magazine will be taking over the Little Marlborough Theatre in Brighton for the SteamPunk Magazine Seaside Spectacular. The [...]
Well, after a long and arduous journey through yesterday night, the SteamPunk Magazine crew have finally returned from the Maker Faire that took place at the Centre for Life in Newcastle last weekend as part of the Newcastle ScienceFest.
We took with us some special, pre-release copies of the new issue #7 (which is due [...]
Yes, we’re winding up the clockwork horses and stoking up the steam-powered salesman, ready to get out into the real world this March.
On the 13th and 14th March, you can find us behind a table at the Maker Fair;
And on the 27th March we’ll be manning and womanning a stand at White Mischief. [...]
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing
From left to right: Marc Burrows (bass), Ben Dawson (drums), Andy Heintz (vocal/saw), Andrew McNeill (vocal/guitar)
Despite half of the tube system shutting down for the weekend (and despite the fact that we managed to get ourselves completely lost in the separate time-zone that is King’s Cross St [...]
For any of you in the Leeds area, we’ve had word of a wonderful new venture called Fabrication which is offering up space to designers and costumers, and is also running a series of workshops over the next few months on everything from how to make a Regency dress, to vintage hair and makeup, to [...]
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Having been on the move (and on the road) since the week before the soiree, it’s taken me a little while to pull together all of the [...]
Forget flying cars; now that we’re officially in the future, I want my dirigible. Wishing you all a delightful evening of ringing in the new decade and a fantastic 2010!
We are now all back safe and sound from the soiree. We all had a fantastic time, many thanks to everyone who came and especially to our wonderful bands Sunday Driver, Ghostfire, and the delectable Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing. In the next couple of weeks, we will be putting up photos [...]
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 fear not! If [...]
Almost two years ago now, some of us were lucky enough to be invited to organise the (Short Notice!) Steampunk Soirée. Now, it is with immense personal pleasure that we are finally able to announce the Second Ever (Longer Notice!) Steampunk Magazine Steampunk Soirée which will be happening in Oxford (UK) over Sunday 13th and [...]
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.
