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 [...]
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 [...]
A week ago now, we were lucky enough to attend the first ever UK-wide steampunk gathering (christened ‘The Asylum’) which was held in Lincoln between 11th and 13th September. With us, we took the first UK-printed copies of Steampunk Magazine (printed by the lovely Mal at Fallen Angel Media in Bristol). The organisers of the [...]
Next weekend, steampunks in the UK will get the chance to attend The Asylum Steampunk Convivial, the first steampunk event of its kind in Great Britain. The Asylum will be showcasing a number of upcoming UK steampunk bands including Trousseaux; Sunday Driver; The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing; and our good friends [...]
We wanted to let everyone know that Libby will be representing Steampunk Magazine at this weekend’s MAKE Magazine Maker Faire (San Mateo, California), which is the largest DIY festival worldwide. We will be one aspect of Carnival Mechanique, which is an enlarged version of last year’s Steampunk Contraptor’s Lounge. We won an award at the [...]
With Issue #5 well on the way to completion (and appearing on a website near you in the next week or so) we thought that it was about time that we posted something of a news feature. To begin with, a couple of items that relate to the magazine: For starters, MAKE magazine have an [...]
The flyer pretty much says it all. Except that this is my [Magpie] first show as a solo accordionist. I’ve been playing on the streets (and at parties and bars) for years, and have from time to time toured with Ego Likeness as a drummer, but this will be the first time the stage will [...]
Contributor Molly Porkshanks and editor Libby Bulloff have gathered together a fine assortment of steampunks for a gallery opening in Seattle at the Suite 100 Gallery. This will be a wonderful social event, and of course a chance to see some glorious steampunk art. Anyone in the northwest ought to stop by, I tell you! [...]
DragonCon, which is a mighty-big-deal convention in Georgia, will be host to a great deal of wonderful steampunkiness. SteamPunk Magazine is sponsoring our friends and contributors in Ego Likeness at the event, who will be tabling the magazine and the newly-reprinted Guide to the Apocalypse. [Note that Ego Likeness is not a steampunk band, but [...]
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.
