Hullo folks! It’s come to my attention that the eReader-optimised version of SPM #7 that we’ve been putting out hasn’t been downloading properly for a while now (I’m not sure how long exactly). For now, I’ve removed the link from the website. It may possibly get fixed/re-added at a later date, but this will depend [...]
We got SteamPunk Magazine #8 back from the printers and will be releasing it this Thursday!
Our thickest issue yet, SteamPunk Magazine #8, is about to be sent to the printers and we aim to have it in our hands by TempleCon 2012! What’s more, I’ll be presenting a number of things as will some of our favorite contributors. My schedule and that of the Catastrophone Orchestra is over on the [...]
At long last, SteamPunk Magazine issues #1-7 are in print once more! They are bound in this 432 page, lovingly designed anthology released by the collectively-run publisher Combustion Books, with an introduction by Jake von Slatt and a handsome cover illustrated by John Coulthart. The anthology can be purchased for $20.99 from the independent distributor [...]
SteamPunk Magazine #8 has a submissions deadline of October 15th and will be released in November, 2011. The only reasonably major change is that we are, for this issue at least, not considering poetry for inclusion in the magazine. Read our submission guidelines and then direct any submissions to readers@steampunkmagazine.com ! We’ve reorganized a bit, [...]
It’s that time of year again! Valentine’s Day is barreling towards us all like a pink, chocolate, wildly out of control locomotive that’s jumped it’s tracks. As we quake in fear at what a modern fourteenth of February might bring (did I mention pink already?), let us take it upon ourselves to bring a bit [...]
If you haven’t seen the Google logo yet today, GO! Right now! It’s some submarine windows for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which you can move around to see different undersea creatures, and it’s incredibly adorable. If you miss it, here’s a few stills:
Steampunk Magazine currently isn’t accepting submissions, but lots of other places are looking for fabulous writers! Here are a few calls for submissions which I’ve been asked to pass along. Steam-Powered 2 is an anthology of steampunk stories featuring lesbian-identified protagonists. (Look for a review of the first Steam-Powered book here on the blog soon, [...]
Here are the pretty things I am reading and looking at recently. Victorian Recycling. The theme for the Steampunk Chat on Twitter at 9pm EST tonight is Sustainable Steampunk! Victorian earrings, made out of real hummingbirds. Mayan Cooking at Multiculturalism for Steampunk. I am now imagining tea parties with Mayan tamales and tasty tea. Mmm… [...]
My friend was trying to come up with a video game proposal, and I jokingly suggested one of those dress-up games they make for little kids, but with Victorian dresses. And then I decided this was a really good idea and spent an hour daydreaming about it, and I thought I’d share the results here! [...]
This long-awaited issue is our thickest yet, coming in at 118 pages of mad science, history, interviews, fashion, and fiction! It can also be downloaded for free from our downloads page.
Printed copies are available from Combustion Books.
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.
