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BLOG - Steampunk Renovation Challenge

Interview with Theresa Meyers, part 3
May 13, 2012
Blog - AetherFest 2012 - Review

The Coolest Airship Pictures You’ve Ever Seen, a list by Io9


May 11, 2012
Submissions are being accepted for Steamworks, a new steampunk romance anthology by Bottom Drawer Publications. Hurry, submissions end May 31st.

Racist Things Steampunks Are Not Immune To: Dysconscious Racism, “the uncritical habit of mind (i.e., perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs) that justifies inequity and exploitation by accepting the existing order of things as given.”


May 10, 2012
Felicia Day goes Neo-Victorian in a Steampunk Photoshoot

Adventures of the League of STEAM - "Bitter Gnomes and Gardens" A relaxing day of gardening turns terrifying when Ellie and Coyote make a startling discovery about the League's lawn ornaments!

Steampunk Live Wallpaper for Android with interactive sparks & moving gears!


May 9, 2012
Check out O Baronato de Shoah (The Barony of the Shoah), a novel by José Roberto Vieira, @baraozero on twitter

Returning from Aetherfest – A Con Report, by Daniel A. Burrow

Get your copy of Exhibition Hall #20

Have you read "The Hand of Fate"?, a short story by Prof. Cayne Armand, over at Doctor Fantastiques

Dark Beauty Magazine is looking for steampunk submissions. WE have extended our Special Steampunk release to July 1st. Meaning if you have something to say about Steampunk, then blow your lid off and get that submission into us by June 1st 2012. Submit to submissions@darkbeautymag.com. Remember all submissions must be a PDF for preview and we will contact you if the content is accepted. Happy submitting Sky Captains!

A review of The Unnaturalists


May 1, 2012
Five Secrets of Steampunk Fine Jewelry, Have you ever wondered what is Steampunk fine jewelry? Here are five hints or clues to distinguish real Steampunk fine jewelry.

Steampunk Comic Books (Part 1), Maeve Alpin talks about the start of steampunk comics

Blimp Lamp, by Flaminio Bovino in Italy

Get your set of Space: 1889 & Beyond books


April 30, 2012
'Dishonored' Delivers More Screens, Arkane Studios' upcoming assassination FPS emerges from the shadows with new screenshots

Blog - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STEAMPUNK: Personality Types and Temperaments and Archetypes, Balogun talks about how our personality type affected our choices to lead us to steampunk

Steampunk Holmes is looking for Vendor-Partners for Steampunk Catalog, interactive iPad and Web books will allow readers to interact with ads and follow links to the vendors

Kickstarter - Steampunk Musha: Victoriental Adventures, A Board & Card Games project

Pictures from Steampunk Empire Symposium, held last weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio

New release - Gears and Levers 1: A Steampunk Anthology, Phyllis Irene Radford. Magic and science blend together as Gears and Levers explores the quest for all that makes up humanity.

Kickstarter - The Tragic Tales of Willow Lightwheel, a STEAMPUNK comic with elements of sci-fi and fantasy thrown in for good measure. It is a hi-concept adventure comic.


April 29, 2012
Interview with Theresa Meyers, part 3

Kickstarter - Skyship Chronicles - A steampunk adventure, "Gustav, an evil scientist steals the inventions of a rival inventor. Victory turns to defeat as Gustav learns the inventions are useless without the power source, which the clever inventor has hidden. 30 years later, Adam, a young man from rural Kansas finds the power source while working at a post office. Upon opening the lead-lined box, two women appear from out of nowhere, and carry Adam off, just as Gustav's skyship appears. After 30 years of hunting, Gustav is on the trail, and he will stop at nothing."

Blog - The Sunshine Steam: An Account of the Inaugural Florida Steampunk Society Exhibition East, by S.J. Chambers


April 28, 2012
Blog - Wanted: attitude adjustment, commentary about elitism in teh steampunk community

Have you been reading "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage"?, it will be published as a book in about a year's time. Read it now on the website.

Read the new comic series - The Trials and Tribulations of Miss Tilney, by David Doub. Plucky cub reporter Henrietta Tilney sits face to face with accused mass murderer Lord Beowulf Harwood. An interview she hoped would launch her writing career soon explodes into a whirlwind of deadly adventure, taking Tilney and the mysterious Harwood across Victorian London.
David Doub is the author of acclaimed comics such as “Dusk” and “Mystery Masque” and has been a guest author at conventions across the country including Phoenix Comic Con, Animefest, and Saboten-Con. His translation of the classic penny dreadful into a suspenseful comic series is the latest offering from the author who has built a reputation for crafting fast paced and nuanced stories featuring strong and complex female lead characters.
The artist on The Trials and Tribulations is Sarah Elkins, who just recently was in Womanthology. With Joamette Gil and Danielle Alexis rounding out the amazing art team working on the comic.


April 26, 2012
Kickstarter - Help James Koenig build a steampunk piano, which he wants to exhibit and play in performances.

Video - League of STEAM - "Hairy Hijinks" "Things get hairy when Crackitus and Lady take JayAre and The Russian on a hunt for a mythical monster."


April 25, 2012
A review of Bethany Griffin’s Masque of the Red Death, a young adult novel set in a post-apocalyptic Victorian dystopia

Blog - LOOKIN’ FOR THE PERFECT BEAT THROUGH BRASS GOGGLES? The Marriage of Steampunk and Hip Hop!, a look at Steamfunk, the interpretation of Steampunk by writers and musicians of African descent

Have you read Glen Fernandez's VilKanik, a Steampunk-themed short comic


April 24, 2012
Kickstarter - Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus, a series of seven books published across multiple channels. This project raises funds for the first book in the series. "In an alternative Steampunk universe (c.1885), the plans for Captain Nemo's mysterious Nautilus submarine have been stolen from the British Secret Service. There is only one man who can solve the case, Sherlock Holmes. With his bionic side-kick Doctor Watson, and his brilliant and lethal sister, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock unravels a mystery that will shake the foundation of the British Empire. "

Baker Street Babes have a chat with three of the people behind the Steampunk Holmes project

Right Turn Only reviews the manga version of Soulless

Author PJ Schnyder talks about her story A Swan in Siam which is in Tales from the Archives: Volume II

Steampunk iPhone station that functions as a night light, charging station and audio station

A short article about Bruce Rosenbaum, of ModVic and the Steampunk House

A review of Steampunk Tarot

A review of The Janus Affair, the next book of Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences by Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine

A review of S.T.E.A.M.Fest 2012,


April 23, 2012
Interview with Theresa Meyers, part 2

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY BLACK PEOPLE: African & African-American Steampunk! A great blog from Balogun with inspirational steampunk authors and personalities.

Blog - Victorianism without Victoria: on Mexican Steampunk,

May 2012 Steampunk Events Round-up

Blog - Where ARE the Steampunk POC?

A quick review of "Her Majesty’s Explorer: a Steampunk Bedtime Story"

Blog - Steampunk’s Dirty Little Secret, Austin Sirkin talks about power/energy in the world of steampunk literature

Winter, a steampunk web series, needs your help on Indiegogo, Winter is a live action series, but with completely CGI backlot. The team has the opportunity to get to Cannes (the most prestigious Film Festival in the world) with a view to finding investors to make the project happen. You can help out now by donating to help film one scene to be shown at Cannes.

Artwork - Steampunk Spider Woman by Glen Fernandez

Blog - The Speed of Write by Steven Harper, author of The Doomsday Vault and the upcoming sequel, The Impossible Cube

Photo Blog - Steampunk cameras

Artwork - Steampunk Aquarius

Article - Waltz on the Wye, looking forward to a bigger event than last year, May 18-20, Chepstow, UK


April 18, 2012
31 More Images Of Hot Steampunk Girls & Guys, more photos from around the internet

GeekDad talks about Wollstonecraft, The planned series of books has Mary and Ada encountering real historical figures that the two women actually knew (Percy Shelley, Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, and Charles Dickens) and it’s all wrapped up in a steampunk theme, for middle grade readers.

The Advocate awarded Dr. Grymm Laboratories and The Mark Twain House and Museum "Best Exhibit of 2011"


April 17, 2012
Winners of the 2012 Reader’s Choice Awards, the full listing at Steampunk Chronicle. Congratulations to the winners and the nominees!

Interview with author Heather Massey, her ""Clockpunk" trilogy launches this month with her Red Sage novel, The Watchmaker's Lady, which focuses on a hero, his automaton soul mate, and the impossible odds they overcome to be together."

Quick review of Genevieve Valentie's Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti

Bethesda debuts Dishonored, a game set in a steampunk world where the main character sets out for revenge.

Beyond Victoriana wins “Best Blog” in the 2012 Steampunk Chronicle’s Readers Choice Awards

Blog - WHAT IS STEAMFUNK? Exposing the Big Steampunk Lie!

Writers Submission Guidelines for MVmedia's Steamfunk! Anthology Submission deadline is July 31. Stories must contain a main characters or characters of African descent and elements of steam technology.


April 15, 2012
Interview with Theresa Meyers

Casting Call - The Blackburn Gaslight Adventures, an audio drama by Gypsy Audio. gypsyaudio.org. It's a new Steampunk series by writer A.J. Clarkson. The show is set in October of 1863, at the battle Perryville in Kentucky. This is PULP, brain candy and Gypsy Audio is looking at you guys to play it that way. Fun, excitement, and of course ADVENTURE!

Steampunk interest - Fractal Clockwork, Brent Thome is creating a mechanical computer from custom laser-cut gears to compute and draw fractals.


April 10, 2012
Femagination talks about Wollstonecraft, the book project by Jordan Stratford on Kickstarter

Will your steampunk outfit become a figure model kit?, Submit your photos for a chance at being immortalized as a resin model.

Blog - Behind the Convention Curtain, What happens behind the scenes to put on a convention?


April 9, 2012
Have you read The Queen's Martian Rifles? Does the secret to the origin of Mankind lie within the Great Pyramid of Mars? There are powerful extraterrestrial enemies no one even suspects exist – enemies that have renewed an age-old secret war against Humanity using all the supernatural powers at their command.

California State University alumni inspire art exhibit. “Steampunk: The Beginning,” at CSUF’s Begovich Gallery examines the genre with artwork based on Steampunk novels by James Blaylock, K.W.Jeter and Tim Powers.

The Steampunk Bible is nominated for a Hugo Award in Best Related Work

City of Steam games fashions a pressurized skill tree

Victoria Steam Expo III posts preliminary schedule


April 8, 2012
Steampunk Chronicle Reader's Choice Awards Reception, The 2012 Reader's Choice Awards will be announced SUNDAY April 15th, at S.T.E.A.M.Fest in Atlanta, GA. Join the party and celebrate the Nominees and the WINNERS of the Best of 2012 in Steampunk - as voted by the reader's of Steampunk Chronicle.

Watch the awesome teaser trailer for Teslacon 3


April 5, 2012
Leviathans: Monsters In The Sky Getting Detailed, Story Unfolds On Catalyst Blog , the work continues on this steampunk themed game

Ann VanderMeer reveals the TOC for Steampunk Revolution, a new anthology from Tachyon Publications. Includes stories by, among others, Cherie Priest, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Bruce Sterling, N.K. Jemison and many more. Nonfiction by Amal El-Mohtar, Jaymee Goh, Margaret Killjoy, and Austin Sirkin.

New Steampunk Fiction coming soon…, Tales from the Archives, Volume 2. Tee Morris presents a new season of steampunk fiction starting with “Sins of the Father” giving a glimpse into Wellington Books’ past.


April 4, 2012
Tai Chi 0, a Chinese martial arts steampunk movie, set for 2013.

A review of Murdoch Mysteries, set in a fairly steampunk Toonto, Canada.

2Q 2012 editorial: Steampunk and Peak Resources, by Wendy S. Delmater, Editor, Abyss & Apex.

Have you read Oracles of Aragret, by Mark Whitney. "An airship captain, hell-bent on avenging the murder of his crew, is dragged into a desperate war against a blood thirsty priest who is determined to rule the world. A banished Wanderer, a beautiful young thief, and a retired mercenary join him in the hopeless battle. Together they fight against all odds to save the people of Aragret from a fate worse than death. "

Check out this Steampunk iMac Mod, with an old pump organ, brass vent registers, and analog voltage gauges


April 2, 2012
Check out the Kickstarter project for Wollstonecraft, a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief.





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