SteamPunk Magazine

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

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

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.
 * 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.
 * SteamPunk Magazine was mentioned in a Newsweek article discussing the steampunk movement as an example of a steampunk periodical.
 * An article in The Yale Herald uses SteamPunk Magazine as an example of microcultures and their ability to thrive on the Internet.

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