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.

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

References