SteamPunk Magazine

SteamPunk Magazine was an online and print semi-annual magazine devoted to the steampunk subculture^[1] which existed between 2007 and 2016. It was published under a Creative Commons license, and was free for download.^[1] In March 2008, SteamPunk Magazine began offering free subscriptions to incarcerated Americans, as a "celebration" of 1% of the US population being eligible.^[2]

SteamPunk Magazine

Cover of Issue 3 of SteamPunk Magazine
Editor	Margaret Killjoy
Categories	Steampunk
Frequency	Semi-annual
Publisher	Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness Vagrants Among Ruins Combustion Books
First issue	March 3, 2007 (2007-03-03)
Final issue Number	January 2016 10
Country	USA
Based in	New York City
Website	steampunkmagazine.com
OCLC	697621954

SteamPunk Magazine was formerly published by anarchist zine publisher Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness^[3] in the United States and by Vagrants Among Ruins in the United Kingdom. The magazine was then published by the worker-run Combustion Books^[4] in New York City and distributed by anarchist publishing collective AK Press.^[5]

Reception and recognition

• Two of the editors, Magpie Killjoy and Libby Bulloff, were invited to the 2008 Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area.^[6]
• The popular blog Boing Boing, written by the sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, announced every Steampunk Magazine release, including their Steampunk's Guide To The Apocalypse.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}
• SteamPunk Magazine was mentioned in a Newsweek article discussing the steampunk movement as an example of a steampunk periodical.^[12]
• An article in The Yale Herald uses SteamPunk Magazine as an example of microcultures and their ability to thrive on the Internet.^[13]

Issues

Issue #1

Putting the Punk Back into Steampunk

Interviews with:

• Author Michael Moorcock
• The Original Steampunk Band, Abney Park
• Singer/Songwriter Thomas Truax
• Composer Darcy James Argue

Issue #2

A Journal of Misapplied Technology

Contents include:

• John Reppion

Issue #3

The Sky is Falling

Contents include:

• Alan Moore
• Interview with Doctor Steel

Issue #4

Our Lives as Fantastic as any Fiction

Contents include:

• Donna Lynch and Steven Archer

Issue #5

Long Live Steampunk!

Contents include:

• Musician Voltaire

Issue #6

The Pre–Industrial Revolution

Contents include:

• Author John Reppion
• Interview with Ghostfire

Issue #7

Contents include:

• Articles on race and steampunk as well as the future of steampunk fashion
• Interviews with Sunday Driver and The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing

Issue #8

Contents include:

• Instructions for making laudanum and a lexicon of 19th-century New York City slang
• Interview with Unwoman