Howdy, all. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a bit with a new writing medium- flash fiction. If you haven’t heard of it, flash fiction is a story that usually runs around 500 words. A sort of hybrid between short fiction and poetry, the best flash fiction punches you in the jaw and leaves you dazed (in [...]
For those of you interested in the steampunk music scene here in the UK (or in steampunk music more generally) there’s certainly a lot going on at the moment. So much so, in fact, that we feel obliged to tell you about some of it. By way of new releases, over the next two months [...]
Having more-or-less only just cooled our boots after the mad dash up to Newcastle for the UK Maker Faire, SteamPunk Magazine are on the move again. This time, we’re going down to old London town for White Mischief’s Great Exhibition, taking place at Scala in King’s Cross. There is a fantastic night of music and [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
* * * * * 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 video that we managed to get over the weekend of the SteamPunk Magazine Soiree (not to mention that we actually had to send [...]
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!
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.
