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 [...]
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 [...]
Hopefully, this shall be the final announcement regarding the future of the magazine that you will read for quite some time. As you all know by now, Margaret has allowed me to take over some of the editing and day-to-day running of SteamPunk Magazine, and I am both honoured and delighted to be allowed do [...]
I am sad to announce that I am stepping down as primary editor of SteamPunk Magazine. Suffice it to say that, for a number of reasons, I am not able to continue running the magazine. Fortunately, someone has stepped up to take the mantle. It’s no small thing to be the volunteer editor of a [...]
Edit: I credited this wrong, have now fixed it. Our Italian friend Reginazabo has furnished us with an English translation of their introduction to the translated steampunk’s guide to the apocalypse. I just read it over and it’s wonderful: it really nails most of what steampunk is about for us, and explores some new theoretical [...]
We’ve gotten word that co-conspirators in Brazil, steampunk.com.br have begun to distribute SteamPunk Magazine to a Brazilian audience! At the moment, there are no translations available, but we certainly appreciate the Portuguese-speaking world having a good portal through which to discover the world of steampunk!
So this is a bit late, as it came out last month, but A SteamPunk’s Guide To The Apocalypse is now available in italian!. We just got our copies in the mail, it’s pretty exciting. Translations were done by Reginazabo, and it was released by Agenzia X.
Pardon the ominous subject line. We won’t be going away. Issue #5 nears completion and I expect it will be our strongest issue yet. But the big news is that we’re taking on a new format. SteamPunk Magazine has always been a journal masquerading as a periodical. We launched at a time when small magazines [...]
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.
