As we mentioned yesterday the Gaslamp Bazaar is closed for the foreseeable future. However, as promised, we’ve been looking into how to make the SteamPunk Magazine more community-orientated, and we are happy to announce that you can now register your very own SPM account. Once registered, you will be able to manage your profile, comment [...]
After much deliberation, we have decided to close the SteamPunk Magazine forum down for the foreseeable future. Between the spambots and the technical difficulties, it has gotten increasingly difficult to maintain the Gaslamp Bazaar over the last year or so. We tried to make forums somewhere different and interesting place to hang out, but the [...]
Time for a few sorely overdue thanks to the people who helped (advertently or otherwise) with the redesign of this website, and with the design of the new website for Vagrants Among Ruins. First off, many, many, many thanks to the wonderful Brigid Ashwood who provided the artwork in the banner and footer of the [...]
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 [...]
As many of you will already know by now, there are major changes afoot here at Steampunk Magazine, and it’s long past the time when we should have said something about what you can expect to see over the next few weeks and months. Since Steampunk Magazine began, its base of operations has always been [...]
At the moment, we are in the process of re-designing the Steampunk Magazine Website. We are also setting up a new, top-secret project which will (among other things) allow us to sell UK-printed copies of the magazine to Europe and much of the rest of the world. There will be more information on that project [...]
Daniel Proulx has started a new blog of Steampunk resources and inspiration, to be found here. The first post is a gallery of Steampunk art found on DeviantArt, and some of it is quite lovely. It is, as I said, still very new, but hopefully many awesome things will ensue once it gets going! My [...]
Good evening, fellow steampunks! Allegra invited me to start blogging here some time ago, but I’m afraid I’m only just now getting around to it – but it works out well, because by now you’ll all have seen me in Issue 6! (What? You haven’t gotten your copy yet? Go now. I’ll wait till you [...]
Since the tail end of last year we have had ever-increasing problems with the website as a result of hackers who broke in and have been using Steampunk Magazine to spread spam and malware. This problem has got exponentially worse over the past few weeks, and culminated two days ago in my needing to take [...]
Once more we have suffered under a wave of spambots. I’m dreadfully sorry to every RSS feed subscriber who had to suffer obnoxious porn spam. We’ve updated all our software and databases and all of that stuff, so hopefully this noxious era is now behind us.
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.
