Just a quick note to let y’all know the submission guidelines have been updated for Issue #8, the theme confirmed and the reading period announced. Here’s a summery summary:
The next reading period is 1st April 2010 to 31st May 2010, when we will be accepting submissions for Issue #8 of SteamPunk Magazine, which is due [...]
From time to time we get emails asking us about the publication dates of various issues of the magazine, and also several queries regarding the dates of future releases. To solve the former question, here is a list of when each issue of SteamPunk Magazine came out:
Issue #1 – Putting the Punk Back into [...]
We are, even as we speak, working away feverishly behind the scenes to put together the next issue of Steampunk Magazine, which will be coming to a website near you (well, this one, anyway) some time at the end of March.
However, the past few months have seen a bit of a drought in emails [...]
Although we realise that this is long, long overdue, we are nonetheless very happy to reveal the all new, brand new, amazingly-redesigned Steampunk Magazine website for your viewing pleasure. As well as completely overhauling the main website, our forum the Gaslamp Bazaar has also been given a facelift.
And with this redesign, we must offer [...]
Thanks to the wonderful Mister Frazer Brown, we are now able to offer the 11”x17” sizes of issues #3 and #4 in imposed format.
You can find these on our downloads page which we have re-designed in preparation for the complete website re-launch which you will be seeing within the next couple of days.
Thanks [...]
We’ve had a few people saying that they are having problems ordering Issue #6 of Steampunk Magazine to their countries.
Having taken a look into it, we’re pretty sure that the problem is being caused by a new feature that PayPal have added to their order page to estimate shipping costs. Basically, when you click [...]
After a lengthy struggle and much holding of heads, we are delighted to finally be able to announce the release of Issue #6 of Steampunk Magazine – The Pre-Industrial Revolution. The cover has been beautifully illustrated by the wonderful Molly Crabapple, and the magazine has (among other things): the final part of John Reppion’s ‘Doppler [...]
Some people said it would never happen, for a moment in there some of us even thought it would never happen, but now, over a year since the release of our last issue, it brings me immense pleasure to announce that the fifth issue of SteamPunk Magazine is now available! Featuring everything from emergency welding [...]
Just a quick note to let everybody know that there have been a few hiccups with the printing and distribution of issue #5, but hopefully it will be coming to a website near you very soon indeed.
We are still scheduled for the release of issue #6 some time in July, and thank you all for [...]
I am happy to say that the Deadlines & Submissions page has now (finally!) been updated with information regarding the recent happenings at SteamPunk Magazine. There have been changes to the frequency and submission windows, and (as you can see) we are also now accepting poetry.
In addition to this we can also announce the [...]
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.
