For you artsy types: Spoonflower, which is a custom fabric-printing website, is hosting a contest to design a steampunk fabric. The deadline is next Monday, Feb. 15th.. Here’s the entries already submitted. For you less-artsy types: Voyages Extraordinaries is having a month for Japanese steampunk, and are kicking it off with a drawing for the [...]
Image re-produced from Beyond Victoriana, courtesy of Kory Lynn Hubbell We’ll be completely honest with you: we don’t really read blogs. That’s probably a part of the reason why we’re so bad at keeping this one updated (although that’s changing as we kidnap… I mean find new people that we can talk into posting any [...]
Lately I’ve been seeking steampunk eye candy in the form of amazing interior decorating, and the internet is providing plenty. (via The Steampunk Home) Antique science-y things! (via The Steampunk Workshop) Epic old doors! (via Gizmodo) A home theatre like the inside of a submarine?! While I can do nothing so epic, I have been [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, to all you U.S. types! I’m thankful for awesome free steampunk fiction, and I received an e-mail from a blog reader asking me to highlight this excellent short story by G. D. Falksen from Tor.com’s Steampunk Month, so here it is! Do enjoy! Also from Tor.com, a list of steampunk blogs, which I [...]
Alas, it is Monday. You’ve all probably seen this comic, but it makes me giggle, and therefore makes for a good way to start the week: Via the fabulous folks at Wondermark. Speaking of fabulous folks, Tor.com is having a Steampunk Month, which I’m only 18 days late at noticing. I haven’t had a chance [...]
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.
