{{Short description|Former subculture magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Steampunk magazine Issue3.gif | image_size = 250px | image_alt = | image_caption = Cover of Issue 3 of ''SteamPunk Magazine'' | editor = Margaret Killjoy | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Steampunk | frequency = Semi-annual | circulation = | publisher = Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness<br>Vagrants Among Ruins<br>Combustion Books | founder = | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date|2007|03|03}} | finaldate = January 2016 | finalnumber = 10 | company = | country = USA | based = New York City | language = | website = steampunkmagazine.com (now defunct) | issn = | oclc = 697621954 }} '''''SteamPunk Magazine''''' was an online and print semi-annual magazine devoted to the steampunk subculture<ref name="mainsite">{{cite web|url=http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210051050/http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 10, 2007 |title=Putting the Punk back into SteamPunk |publisher=SteamPunk Magazine|accessdate=2012-11-27}}</ref> which existed between 2007 and 2016. It was published under a Creative Commons license, and was free for download.<ref name="mainsite"/> In March 2008, ''SteamPunk Magazine'' began offering free subscriptions to incarcerated Americans, as a "celebration" of 1% of the US population being eligible.<ref name="offer">{{cite web|url=http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/1-in-100-us-adults-now-eligible-for-free-steampunk-subscription/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402010821/http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/1-in-100-us-adults-now-eligible-for-free-steampunk-subscription/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 2, 2008|title=1 in 100 US adults now eligible for free SteamPunk subscription!|work=SteamPunk Magazine|date=2008-02-28|accessdate=2012-11-27}}</ref>
''SteamPunk Magazine'' was formerly published by anarchist zine publisher Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness<ref>[http://www.tangledwilderness.org/ Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness]</ref> in the United States and by Vagrants Among Ruins in the United Kingdom. The magazine was then published by the worker-run Combustion Books<ref>[http://www.combustionbooks.org/ Combustion Books]</ref> in New York City and distributed by anarchist publishing collective AK Press.<ref>{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions|url=http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/faq/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012131330/http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/faq/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 12, 2009|work=SteamPunk Magazine|accessdate=27 November 2012}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="makersfaire">{{cite web |author=Branwyn, Gareth |date=29 April 2008 |title=Steampunk Magazine at Maker Faire |url=http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/steampunk_magazine_at_mak.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312074112/http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/steampunk_magazine_at_mak.html |archivedate=12 March 2009 |accessdate=27 November 2012 |work=Make}}</ref> *The popular blog Boing Boing, written by the sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, announced every ''Steampunk Magazine'' release, including their ''[http://www.combustionbooks.org/products-page/non-fiction/a-steampunks-guide-to-the-apocalypse/ Steampunk's Guide To The Apocalypse]''.<ref name="boing1">{{cite web |author=Doctorow, Cory |date=3 March 2007 |title=Steampunk magazine |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/03/steampunk-magazine.html |accessdate=2012-11-27 |publisher=Boing Boing}}</ref><ref name="boing2">{{cite web |author=Doctorow, Cory |date=31 May 2007 |title=Steampunk Magazine #2 |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/31/steampunk-magazine-2.html |accessdate=2012-11-27 |publisher=Boing Boing}}</ref><ref name="boing3">{{cite web |author=Doctorow, Cory |date=24 September 2007 |title=Steampunk Magazine #3 |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/24/steampunk-magazine-3.html |accessdate=2012-11-27 |publisher=Boing Boing}}</ref><ref name="boing4">{{cite web |author=Doctorow, Cory |date=26 February 2008 |title=Steampunk Magazine issue 4 |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/26/steampunk-magazine-i.html |accessdate=2012-11-27 |publisher=Boing Boing}}</ref><ref name="boing5">{{cite web |author=Doctorow, Cory |date=11 October 2007 |title=Steampunk's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/11/steampunks-guide-to.html |accessdate=2012-11-27 |publisher=Boing Boing}}</ref> *''SteamPunk Magazine'' was mentioned in a ''Newsweek'' article discussing the steampunk movement as an example of a steampunk periodical.<ref name="newsweek">{{cite web |author=Braiker, Brian |date=30 October 2007 |title=Steampunking Technology |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/67352 |accessdate=2012-11-27 |publisher=Newsweek}}</ref> *An article in ''The Yale Herald'' uses SteamPunk Magazine as an example of microcultures and their ability to thrive on the Internet.<ref name=yaleherald>[http://www.yaleherald.com/article-p.php?Article=6412 Does virtual narrowcasting create narrow minds?]{{dead link|date=November 2012}}</ref>
==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== {{Reflist}}
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