Happy Holidays, everyone! (Did you see the eclipse on the Solstice? If not, there’s photos here!) Whatever your holiday plans were/are, there’s an upcoming internet event which all might enjoy – Lia Keyes (@liakeyes) and Matt Delman (@mattdelman) has started a tradition of weekly steampunk chats on Twitter, under the hashtag #steampunkchat. They’re every Friday [...]
Earlier this month, I received an email from Christine Danse, author of the steampunk novella, Island of Icarus. She had seen a blog post I’d made about a year ago regarding the subgenre of biopunk, and raised the question of why it has sat so quietly in the back corner of popular culture. From there, [...]
Howdy, all. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a bit with a new writing medium- flash fiction. If you haven’t heard of it, flash fiction is a story that usually runs around 500 words. A sort of hybrid between short fiction and poetry, the best flash fiction punches you in the jaw and leaves you dazed (in [...]
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 [...]
This weekend I was at Steampunk World’s Fair! The event filled more than two hotels when it only expected to fill one, so I knew it’d be big going in, but the entire thing was positively fantastic: An endless carnival of performances, discussions, costumes and dancing! The best panel that I went to was the [...]
For those of you who haven’t yet seen the latest issue of SteamPunk Magazine, just a quick reminder that big things are happening in the steampunk community this spring. We have got together with some of the people behind a myriad of other steampunk magazines, communities, websites and groups to bring you the Great Steampunk [...]
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.
