While we patiently though anxiously await the upcoming Steampunk Magazine, might I perhaps compel the steampunk enthusiasts gathered here to pick up the first issue of another online steampunk periodical, entitled the "Gatehouse Gazette"?



In this first issue, the reader with find an introduction to the genre of dieselpunk by Piecraft and myself, an interview with Toby Frost, author of Space Captain Smith, steampunk fashion and couture by Hilde Heyvaert, a review of the latest Indiana Jones film by Jack Rose, steampunk poetry, essays, cartoons—and more!

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It's a fantastic magazine.
I think everyone should read it because it's well worth it!

Downloaded! Looks good and I look forward to having a proper read when a fabled spare moment crops up.

great! just downloaded it, thanks alot

Well, I just grabbed a copy, and will be reading it this evening (Internet is a bit of a precious commodity for me at the moment).

Now, we have ended up with several threads on it. If I can ask people to only use this one, I'll pull all the others into here, and remove most of my posts.

Thanks all!
Tim.

Three threads? I'm flattered

You should be.

I've just scrolled through it a bit. It's looking good so far. Some parts more than others, and I've (I hope somewhat understandably) mainly glanced at the steampunk parts, but it's a very nice little periodical.

Can I inquire how often you're intending to publish it? Will this be monthly, quarterly, termly, or what?

We're aiming at a bimonthly publication; our next issue is scheduled for release coming September.

I'm glad to hear you liked it! We try to include articles related to different aspects of steampunk (and dieselpunk) so that there's something for everyone to enjoy.

Our third issue is released today!


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Steampunk is all about “Playing Roles & Dressing-Up” with the third and holiday issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.

Read about the most stylish history maker, Beau Brummell, from Mr James Roberts or discover the glory of the Venetian Carnival in an article by Mr Joost van Ekris. Learn the story of the first steampunk musician from the man behind Vernian Process, Mr Joshua Pfeiffer, and let Mr “Piecraft” teach you about the history of dieselpunk. Plus two articles about role-playing by Miss Hilde Heyvaert!

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Let "The Romance of Science" enchant you with the fourth and winter issue of the Gatehouse Gazette!

Discover that winter is the perfect season for steampunk fashion in the columns of Miss Hilde Heyvaert and learn that it is the perfect time for gin again from Mr Craig B. Daniel. Read an interview with steampunk artist Miss Molly "Porkshanks" Friedrich and enjoy an exclusive preview of the upcoming steampunk MMORPG Remnants of Skystone by Colonel Adrianna Hazard!

This issue further contains reviews of the novel Jack Faust by Mr Trubetskoy, the neo-noir film Chinatown by Mr Sigurjón Njálsson, and the animated Adventures of Tintin by Mr James Roberts. There is a "Local Steampunk" article about the Portuegese city of Porto by Dr Damon Molinarius, a tutorial for making your own steamy wrist cuffs by Miss Hilde Heyvaert, a preview of Mr Robert Rodgers' upcoming steampunk novel, Arcadian Snips and the Steamwork Consortium, and much, much more. Suffice to say, there is plenty of reading pleasure awaiting you.

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Commemorating the anniversary of the birthday of Jules Verne, the Gatehouse Gazette celebrates “Extraordinary Voyages” this issue!

Read an interview with the extraordinary fashion designer Miss Vecona and learn more about the adventure look from Miss Hilde Heyvaert’s “The Steampunk Wardrobe” column. She also tells you just how to be a good villain, that is, in a review of the book that does. So if you are scheming any evildoing some time soon, be sure not to miss out on it!

This issue also sees the addition of two new contributors to the Gazette staff: Miss Ella Kremper with a review of Hammer Film’s 1958 film Dracula and Mr Marcius Rauchfuß who writes about all of interest to the steampunk enthusiast in the city of Munich. And this edition sees the third and final part of Mr Piecraft’s “History of Dieselpunk.” Read how dieselpunk and punk relate in his concluding installment!

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Issue #6 is there!

Because the Gatehouse Gazette welcomes all kinds of “Tinkering with Time,” we dedicate this issue to the business of alternate history.

Some of our familiar contributors ponder what could have been: Mr Rauchfuß, for example, imagines how much better things would have been had Emperor Friedrich III lived just a tad longer while Miss Ella Kremper warns just how much worse the world of Brazil seems compared to ours. Mr Trubetskoy wonders why the First World War is so often overlooked in alternate history but offers a review of a book that touches upon the subject, if only in passing.

You will also find plenty of the usual in this edition: Mr Daniel’s “Liquor Cabinet”; “Local Steampunk” in Antwerp this time; Miss Hilde Heyvaert’s “Steampunk Wardrobe” about the mad scientist look; and Ella’s “Hammer Horrors”. And we welcome a new columnist: Mr David Townsend, “Gentleman Traveler”!

Some old faces return to contribute once again: Mr Toby Frost, author of Space Captain Smith and its sequel, God Emperor of Didcot, provides a review of the fourth Call of Duty video game and Mr Guy Dampier writes the first in a series of articles about the Quatermass franchise. Also, we welcome Mr Andii as guest author who writes about his band Ghostfire.

Lastly, the good Colonel and I sat down with Hilde for a long and pleasant chat about her clothes and costuming. (Quite worth the trip to Belgium—by airship, of course.) She previously interviewed two designers for our magazine so the least we could do was return the favor!

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Oh wow. How did I miss this? Thanks.

Dee

In response to the discovery of lost Metropolis footage, issue #7 of the Gatehouse Gazette is dedicated to this 1927 classic of silent film and the metropolis in general.

Of course there is a review of the original Metropolis, by Mr Marcius Rauchfuß, as well as an article about the 2001 anime of the same name, by Mr Sigurjón Njálsson. For the latest about what is going on in that other fine city, the Old Smoke called Londontown, we introduce Brigadier Sir Arthur Weirdy-Beardy of The Steampunk Club, while Mr David Townsend is off to farther realms once again, traveling by the Indian Pacific from Perth to Sydney, Australia.

We are also extremely glad to present an exclusive preview of Mr Toby Frost’s upcoming Space Captain Smith novel, Wrath of the Lemming Men!

And it almost goes without saying that this issue features all the columns and features that you might have come to expect from us: Ms Hilde Heyvaert writes her “Steampunk Wardrobe” about ethnic steampunk; Mr Craig B. Daniel dedicates his “Liquor Cabinet” to a story about beer, and Mr Guy Dampier is back with a Quatermass review. More reviews come from Hilde (Unhallowed Necropolis), Mr Trubetskoy (The Court of the Air and Outcry) and Toby Frost (Gormenghast).

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The Halloween Edition of the Gatehouse Gazette celebrates “Forbidden Tales of Fervor and Fright” with features that ought to startle any steampunk enthusiast of repute.

Behind a spectacular cover by Myke Amend, Ms Hilde Heyvaert of House of Secrets Incorporated opens with an article about Victorian Halloween and provides homemade holiday greeting cards appropriate to the season. We feature an interview with the enfant terrible of dieselpunk, artist Sam Van Olffen and proudly introduce Ms Natania Barron with the short story, “Dr. Adderson’s Lens.”

Mr Rauchfuß brings the history of H.P. Lovecraft, master of the horror genre, while Ella Kremper concludes her series of Hammer Horror reviews with the 1968 The Devil Rides Out. Further reviews include You Are Empty, set in a post-apocalyptic Soviet-Union, and the latest installment in the Wolfenstein franchise.

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Issue #9 of the Gatehouse Gazette is here. Click here to download it now!

We see mid-century influences in modern-day fashion and film and a revival of interest in times past in general, especially in the interwar era as a result of the economic hardships suffered then and today. At several websites and blogs dedicated to dieselpunk, enthusiasts are hard at work building the genre into a movement with its own style and philosophy. The Gatehouse Gazette is no exception in this process. As steampunk is steadily entering the mainstream, we are free to devote all the more energy to promoting dieselpunk. We have begun exploring its potential from the very first issue of this publication onward and will continue to do so by offering a platform for opinion and analysis. Dieselpunk is truly taking off—and therefore this Gatehouse Gazette is “taking to the skies!”

Tying in our aviation theme with the emergence of a dieselpunk mentality, we offer biographies of two heroes: Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart, written by James Roberts and J. Parkin respectively. Both were pioneers and perhaps a tad eccentric. Both were innovators and adventurers. And both continue to inspire us are we reminiscence about their accomplishments and the seemingly more heroic epoch that was their time. While Earhart was the first aviatrix to crisscross across North America and later, the world, a league of equally daring men attempted to conquer the Arctic by air. Marcus Rauchfuß tells the story of the early twentieth century polar expeditions by airship, balloon and zeppelin. Later on in this issue you will find him interviewing Ms Kaleena Kiff; producer and director of the web series Riese: a steampunkesque adventure that incorporates Norse mythology and dystopian elements seemingly inspired by Piecraftian dieselpunk.

In our literary section is an exclusive preview of Lavie Tidhar’s upcoming steampunk novel The Bookman which should hit the shelves around the time this issue is released. Hilde Heyvaert reviews Philip Reeve’s Larklight trilogy and dedicates her Steampunk Wardrobe column to the aviator look while also reminding us of one of Disney’s most underrated adventures: the movie Treasure Planet. Lastly, Trubetskoy writes an extensive comparative review of The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith and H.G. Wells’ The War in the Air—another chapter in the history of alternate history fiction that no serious steampunk can afford to skip!

For many centuries, the interaction between East and West has been a fabulous dwell for art and storytelling. From the days of medieval merchantmen to the era of the great white hunters of imperialism, to our modern day fascination with Japanese cyberculture and the much debated rise of China, the East has lingered in Westerners’ minds as an irreplaceable image of otherness.

Unlike our present day of interconnectedness, globalization and what-not, up until the nineteenth century, the Orient was very much a place of mystery, inhabited by people alien to Europeans’ experience, an exotic, cruel, and barbaric refuge for Western imagination. Critics of Orientalism have done much to cast shame upon our often patronizing and bizarre representations of Eastern life and tradition, but fortunately for those incorrigible aficionados of Oriental romance, steampunk allows us to reject the chains of reality and all the racism and guilt associated with it, to explore anew this imagined world of sultans and saber-rattling Islamic conquerors; harems and white slavery; samurai, dragons and dark, bustling bazaars frequented by the strangest sort of folk. Isn’t this, after all, steampunk’s very premise? To delve into a past that never really was. The Orientalists’ world may never have existed but its history is so powerful that up to this very, Westerners are smitten with it. With this issue, the Gatehouse Gazette is no exception.

As the yet undiscovered realms of Asia are so vastly different, so Victoriental steampunk must differ depending on where it takes place. The deserts of Arabia and the forbidden mountain ranges of Afghanistan may evoke visions of ancient citadels and fata morgana and deserted monasteries atop barren peaks; the jungles of India and Indochina invite adventurers to search for booby trapped remnants of lost civilizations while temples and palaces of spectacular wealth loom beyond, in the lands of Cathay.

In this issue, we, too, travel throughout all of the Eastern World, from Meiji Era Japan to Colonial India to Chinese magic in nineteenth century London.

There is non-Victoriental content on offer as well however, including an interview with Hugh Ashton, author of Beneath Gray Skies, an alternate history novel that is reviewed in this issue. There are your regular columns and a contribution from Sir Arthur Weirdy-Beardy, our correspondent in London.

In anticipation of the Great Steampunk Debate, the launch of which coincides with the release of this edition, issue #12 of the Gatehouse Gazette is dedicated to steampunk ideology.

This magazine has always devoted itself to casting a critical eye on the burgeoning steampunk subculture, or “movement” as some prefer. We are skeptical of attempts to define steampunk too narrowly, both in terms of aesthetics but even more so in terms of politics. Steampunk was not created in protest. It was never intended to have much of an ideological character. That is not to say that there is no place for ideology in steampunk whatsoever. But it is important to remember where we come from. The roots of steampunk are literary, not political.

If we nonetheless allow ourselves some leniency, it is possible to identify something of a shared mentality between steampunks. Jacqueline Christi writes an intelligent commentary on steampunk ideology in this issue and notes that, within the soul of every person involved in the steampunk community, there is found an “unbridled passion” to live one’s dreams unrestrained by the reigns of common convention. “This indomitable heart,” she believes, “lays the foundations of the core principles that steampunk stands for.”

Much has been said on the “punk” in “steampunk.” We are of the persuasion that regards the syllable as little more than an accidental leftover from more rebellious times though, if understood as referring to Christi’s “unbridled passion” and fierce devotion to self-expression, it turns into something that even we can wholeheartedly embrace.

Dr Damon Molinarius suggests that we might have something in common with utopianism in this regard. As steampunks, we like to create worlds of our own in which different rules apply. In this sense, we combine criticism with creativity, according to Molinarius, “disrupting familiar concepts and practices.” Like utopia, steampunk is critical in a constructive manner, “acting as a mirror to the contemporaneous world, and revealing the familiar to be strange.” Both steampunk and utopia suggest that commonplace, universally accepted “truths” might actually be little more than conventions which can readily be changed.

So, let us start changing things. Wear your top hat for a night’s out to the cinemas! Combine that fancy pair of goggles with your regular outfit! Grow a mustache; smoke a pipe; write to your local paper to complain about that peculiar new-fashioned invention called the “iPhone”; or delve into your workshop to make the machine a better one, of course. The future is ours!

As summer is upon us again, issue #13 of the Gatehouse Gazette celebrates the Joie de Vivre with articles about fashion appropriate to the season, the joy of creativity and a concise biography of Nellie Bly by the author of The Alchemy of Murder, Carol McCleary.

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The Gatehouse Gazette rallies up this issue and prepares for the inevitable catastrophe looming over nearly every steampunk and dieselpunk scenario. We answer the call to arms with a plethora of articles dedicated to war and its effects both upon society and our beloved genres.

Jacqueline Christi has an excellent series about "the benefits of war," describing what technologies and other advantages we still derive from past warfare.

Marcus Rauchfuß discusses the not so fine art of propaganda and we are honored to have CarolMcCleary, author of the recent book The Illusion of Murder, which Hilde Heyvaert reviews in this issue,
write about the adventures of nineteenth century ace reporter Nellie Bly in Mexico.

Also, there's a "Local Steampunk" feature by Lorenzo Davia about the Italian port city of Trieste and an interview with Christian Matzke about his War of the Worlds project.

Those not particularly interested in war will find plenty of other entries to their liking, among them a history of one Professor Thaddeus Lowe's private mountain city in California. And, we have another chapter from Andrew Bennett’s upcoming novel, Fearless.

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