Although steampunk has been around as a genre since the 1980s, it came into its own as a subculture and artistic movement in the mid-oughts of the twenty-first century. In these first issues of SteamPunk Magazine, some out of print for years, there are articles and interviews on music, fashion, politics, history, and mad science. Groundbreaking steampunk fiction and breathtaking illustration run beside bizarre philosophy and manifestos. Learn to etch copper, to build a pennyfakething from an old bike or a jacob's ladder from trash. Discover vertical windmills or sew a pair of spats. Here collected now are over 400 pages of awesome steampunkery. SteamPunk Magazine has always been known for keeping the punk in steampunk, for being willing to celebrate steampunk subculture as a part of the global counterculture. Includes contributions from Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, Jake von Slatt, and many more essential names in steampunk!

SteamPunk Magazine has long been a magazine dedicated to keeping the "punk" in steampunk. This eighth issue is our long-awaited return to print and is book-length, our biggest issue yet. Featuring history, opinion, interviews, DIY, and an astounding array of some of the finest voices in steampunk fiction. Featuring interviews with Collane di Ruggine, Shanna Germain, Steampunk Emma Goldman and Voltairine DeCleyre, Greg Rucka, Unwoman, and Thomas Willeford; and writing by Larry Amyett Jr., Cassandra Marshall, Profesor Calamity, Katherine Casey, The Catastrophone Orchestra, Mikael Ivan Eriksson, P. Fobbington, Kate Franklin, Margaret Killjoy, E.M. Johnson, S. Kimery, David Major, Dimitri Markotin, Screaming Mathilda, Wes Modes, Marie Morgan, David Z. Morris, Jamie Murray, Juan Navarro, Profesor Offlogic, Pinche, David Redford, Miriam Rosenberg Roček, and James Schafer. Plus artwork from Manny Aguilera, Tina Black, Sarah Dungan, Doctor Geof, Allison Healy, Tommy Poirier-Morissette, Juan Navarro, E.M. Johnson, Larry Nadolsky, Kate Oliver, and Sergei Tuterov!

What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?

This issue of SteamPunk Magazine features lots of ways to get up to no good! There's also history, fiction, interviews, and everything you could possibly want! No steampunk library is complete without it. Issue #9 features Cherie Priest, Cory Doctorow, and more.

What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that’s captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world. Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunk’s vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology. Steampunk is everywhere—as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.