A quick bit of news, via Time Magazine – the word “Steampunk” has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, with the definition ” a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advance technology.” Congratulations, steampunk world! We are now as legitimate as “cheeseball,” “vuvuzuela,” “hater,” and “The Interwebs,” among other [...]
The fabulous blog Free the Princess has only recently made it onto my radar by publishing a series about Steampunk and Multiculturalism by Ay-Leen the Peacemaker (It’s coming this way next, don’t worry!), but this post by K. Marie Criddle from a while ago was too funny not to share:
Here’s an impressively huge collection of steampunk posters that’s been floating around the Twitter-verse this morning! My favorites below…
Hello everyone! I’m enjoying my last few weeks of break before school starts, so there probably won’t be much regular posting for a bit, but here’s a bit of shameless self-promotion: The second half of my interview at Airship Ambassador, featuring a small hoard of links and my suggestions about what to call a group [...]
This is a few days old, but I thought I should point out… The fabulous Kevin over at Airship Ambassador has put up the first part of an interview with me, in which I address such thorny questions as “How would you define steampunk?” and “Why does everyone call you ‘Spiffy,’ anyway?” It’s fun times, [...]
For those of you in the UK, this coming weekend the folks at SteamPunk Magazine will be beside the seaside for the SteamPunk Magazine Seaside Spectacular at the Little Marlborough Theatre in Brighton. Tickets and more information are still availible on our Events page, and you’ll also be able to pick tickets up on the [...]
Apparently, today is International Steampunk Day! Why? Because Facebook says so, and if Facebook says so it must be true. Steampunk Scholar has some speculations as to why June 14th might be Steampunk Day. A friend and I got dressed up and took some pictures of our latest costumes and then went out for coffee [...]
I was going to post a bunch of book reviews I’d saved throughout the week, but then I realized that they were all just this week’s posts from Steampunk Scholar and you could just go to his blog and follow them yourself. (Which you should consider, as they’re always quite insightful.) But instead, I submit [...]
G.D. Falksen has a post up on steampunk fashion about Steampunk and Post-Apocalyptic Literature… Or, more specifically, how post-apocalyptic fiction is inherently not steampunk. “Steampunk, as you all well know, envisions a world in which the technology of the Victorian era is built up to an even higher and more elaborate level of development, while [...]
Steampunk Scholar has a fun post of entertaining Wells vs. Verne pictures! Who would win in a fight? My money’s on Verne… Dru Pagliassotti has been in Japan this month! There’s nothing particularly steampunk about these posts, I admit, but if good travel journals interest you you’ll probably enjoy reading hers. Speaking of Japan, Voyages [...]
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.
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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.
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