El Investigador N°35 Sp Hands Around The World english

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February 2, Kevin Steil, Wash-ington, USA, Kick off Blog at Airship

Ambassador,

February 2, Paulo César Ramírez, Guadalajara, México, blog at El Investigador, also a full issue dedi-

cated to the project

February 2, Tuesday and every Friday; Josué Ramos; Spain, blog posts

at MundoSteampunk.Net2, and at least every week of the event, coverage in our Blog, and posting ev-eryones web links on our page and

groups

February 2, all week; Steam Nath and Gema Román Steampunk Andalu-

cía; Spain; blog “The Steam Engine”

February 3, Arthur Morgan, Paris, France, launch of vaporiste.

wordpress.com and a couple of post during the month about french steampunk (in en-

glish)

February 3, Arthur Morgan, Par-is, France, Blog at french-steampunk.fr

February 3, Karina Cooper, USA, blog at KarinaCooper.com

February 3, George P. Schny-der, Germany, every monday. Blogpost about steampunk in conjunction with tiny houses, furniture, decor and life-style. Posts will be in German and en-

glish. Wohnbu.de

February 3, Diana Pho (Ay-leen the Peacemaker), USA, blog at Beyond-Victoriana.com about charity and so-

cial good intiatives in steampunk.

February 4, Balogun Ojetade, USA, blog at chroniclesofharriet.com about the Steamfunk and Dieselfunk

Movement.

February 5, Michael Co-orlim, USA, blog at mcoor-lim.com about lesser known 19th historical figures from around the world.


February 6, Fran Alfaya and Zelkova

Carpinifolia, Spain, blog at Decimononic

February 7, Paulo César Ramírez (possibly others like Araceli Rodríguez and Andrea Boglili ) blog

at Mercenarios de DIOS

February 7, Ray Dean ageof-steam.wordpress.com Post on the

Steamed! Blog, Hawaii, USA

February 8, Marcus R. Gilman (Rauchfuss), Germany, blog at Daily Steampunk, English version (possibly

podcast)

February 13 Lee Ann Farruga, Canada, Blog, video, at Steampunk

Canada

February 14, Suna Dasi, Scot-land, Video post at Steampunk India, Post on Facebook, Valentine’s Day Ste-

ampunk story

February 14, Sally-Ann Living-ston, England, photo shoot, blog, Nav-

igatrix

February 16, Barbora Lyčková, Czech Republic, blog at Nebe plné

vzducholodí (A Skyful of Air-ships) (Czech/English)

February 17, Lisa En-gland, USA --

Blog post fea-

turing a celebration of multicultural ste-ampunk storytelling with

the actors of AURELIA.

February 18, Judith and Christian Vogt & Ju Honisch & Oliver Plaschka, Frankfurt, Germany, Steam-

punk novel reading

February 19, Ray Dean www.raydean.net Blog - Round Robin Q & A with steampunks around the world,

Hawaii, USA

Fenruary 20. Jordan “Mr” Bodewell, USA- “Sounds Antique”~ ste-

ampunk music sepiachord.com

Fenruary 24, Jay Noel www.jay-noel.com Blog: Multicultural Steam-punk Books. “It Ain’t Just About Victo-

rian England Anymore!”

February 28, Kevin Steil, Wash-ington, USA, Wrap up Blog at Airship

Ambassador,

Every day, Utelo Arpenteur de l’Infini, Paris, France, share an out-of-France steampunk page & post pic-tures of “steampunks inviting people to meet” on SteamRocket page George Penny, UK + International. Steam-punk livestream with as many

organisers as possible.

N. Inmunsapa

Von Marmalade

Mr. Xpk

Steampunk CommunityCredit in the articles

Steampunk; HAtW …...................… 06Anja Bagus …………………………………. 09ArcaneArmoury and The Navigatrix …...............................… 12French Steampunk ……....…………. 15Balogun Ojetade ………............….. 18BB Blackdog ……....................…… 19Judith & Christian Vogt …….........… 20Decimonic ………........................……. 22Diana M. Pho ………...................…….. 25Karina Cooper ………….................…… 27Khaalidah ……........................…….. 30Lee Ann Farruga …..................……… 31Lies of the Machine ……................… 32Lisa Walker ……........................…….. 33Madeline Holly Rosing ……........…. 34Some Thoughts on SHATW ……...… 35Michael Coorlim …….............……… 38Josue Ramos ………...................……… 40Petra Slovákova ….…................……… 42Kunturi ………………............................. 44Poison Garden ……….................…….. 46Lady Smoke ……......................………… 47Ray Dean ……...........................……… 48Neonauta Ediciones ……..........……. 49Suna Dasi ………......................………….. 52Steam Rocket ……….......................…… 53Thomas & Nimue Brown …............. 56Cabaret de Medianoche …............. 58Victor Sierra …………...................….. 60Mr. Xpike ……...............................…… 62A bordo del Condottieri …............... 65

Fé de Erratas: El credito de autoria en el articulo sobre Elliot Ness, publicado en el numero 34 (Dieselpunk 10) pagina 31, es para nuestro colaborador:

Robber Leblancs


By Kevin D Steil

Like many in our communi-ty, I enjoyed the forms and expres-sions of steampunk before it had a publicly used name.

There were stories, movies, fashions, and decor which em-bodied neo-victorian, retro-futur-istic, and techno-fantasy ideas. Once there was a name, courtesy of K.W. Jeter in the famous Locus magazine interview, it became eas-ier to track down more informa-tion, any information, in the bur-geoning internet.

Fast forward twenty-plus years, and there are many more expressions of steampunk than anyone might have guessed at back in 1989.

Individual interests became small group interests, and both connected in those early and mid years online and to a lesser extent in person.

As mentioned in my recent blog, Supporting Steampunk, ste-ampunk as a hobby and interest has affected people in different and mostly positive ways.

It has brought people to-gether to share ideas and pas-sions, create opportunities, and most importantly, create new friendships and connections.

Beyond ‘steampunk the hobby’, there is ‘steampunk the people’, our community. As an in-terest, steampunk has brought me into contact with the most amaz-ing people around the world, vir-tually and in person.

My bookshelves are full of written worlds, the walls covered with art, the closet filled with out-fits and accessories.

Better than all of that is that my email, postal box, and life in general, is filled with friends, col-leagues, and professional associ-ates.

Every day, there is an op-portunity to meet someone new, make new connections, and make new friends.

We go about our daily lives, doing our usual routines, being in-volved in steampunk in ways that suit our interests, time, and abil-ity, and in all those things lurks the potential to create a wonder-ful bridge with other people.

Simple comments of ap-preciation can spawn not just a conversation, but a relationship. Despite steampunks being scat-tered around the globe, we are not alone, and thanks to the internet and various translation services, we are not separated in thought, action, or speech.


Because of physical dis-tance, we might not be able to at-tend every event we wish to, but with today’s technology, we can still live vicariously and see what everyone is doing.

A few conventions had live video feeds; other events had group instant messaging; and there are more images and videos that a person could watch in a month.

It is that excitement about our community, that unity, that connection with other steam-punks everywhere that I want to share in my latest project, Steam-punk Hands Around the World.

I see it everyday in my re-search, reading, and communi-

cation, and I want everyone else to see, enjoy, and participate in it, too.

After talking with one friend in Spain about various projects he was involved with, Steampunk Hands started as a very tiny idea in my mind when I reached out to other creators in our community.

I thought maybe a hand-ful of people might be interested in writing a blog about it, too. Instead, just three weeks later, and three weeks before the event launches in February.

There are over 70 people participating, and by the time you read this and follow along for the month, there will many more.

It has become so much more than I had anticipated or dreamed of. I am deeply honored by everyone’s support and partici-pation.

Steampunks are the most creative people I know, and what people have in mind to share in February will not disappoint.

Put on your finest outfit, pour a cup of tea, and immerse yourself in a trip around the world. Distance is not a barrier. Language is not a barrier.

And remember, there are potential friends in every conver-sation, just waiting to be met. Go out and meet them!


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Author. Germany

She wrote two steampunk novels: “Aetherhertz” and “Aether-resonanz” (both only in german).

She loves steampunk for all the obvious reasons: really nice people, beautiful clothes and awesome accessories. It is a way of thinking and seeing the world which has made her life richer.

Recently, a few collegues and her created a short film: “Aether affairs”, a teaser for a webseries.

The setting is out of her books and she´s extremely proud, that may be able to show it in February: look out for the “Evil Kraken”

Aetherhertz by Anja Bagus, (rough translation Aetherheart, it is actually a bit of a pun basedon the German word for heart and the unit of measurement Hertz) was the first complete German steampunk novel I read, and I still consider it the best, but I am getting ahead of myself.

Aetherhertz starts with a conspiracy, the birth of a child is covered up, and for a long time, I thought the conspirators were the main antagonists of the novel, but I was wrong.

Within the plot, a lot of things are not what they seem to be which makes the book a captivating read,full of surprises.

Another positive aspect of the novel is the depth and at-tention to historical detail.

The story is set in 1910, social structure, manners and mannerisms, and social norms are exactly as they were in Impe-rial Germany of the time, which is completely in keeping with the background.

This brings me to the set-ting and the plot:

The world of Aetherhertz is ours, it only started to change 10 years before the story begins.

The place is Baden-Baden, a mid-sized town in Southern Germany in the foothills of theBlack Forest and one of the most popular spas of Imperial Germany.

At the turn of the century, around 1899, that is, rivers and lakes started emitting a strangemist, the aether and since then, the world has changed.

Aether changes and mu-tates living things it comes into contact with to one degree or another, depending on the puri-ty of the aether and the intensity and time of exposure,

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but it also enabled tremendous technological progress.

The people who were changed by the aether are called “Verdorbene” (“The defiled”) and are shunned and ostracized from society.

This divide in society is also a factor driving the story.

The plot itself centers around Miss Annabelle Ro-senherz, the nineteen year old daughter of a renowned and wealthy scientist who has gone missing during an expedition.

Annabelle herself is inter-ested in science, which is scan-dalous for a young woman of her station.

Annabelle stumbles upon the outer layers of the conspira-cy, through her research, which

does not benefit her situation at all, especially since a lawyer is laying siege on her and her father’s estate.

He wants to become the legal administrator of Doktor Rosenherz’ estate at least until Annabelle comes of age and would also love to see her marrying his favorite son.

She also has a secret to pro-tect and both sons of said lawyer start courting her, one is a dashing soldier, an officer in a special unit employing aether technology, the other one is an art historian and very gifted inventor.

All three, along with Anna-belle’s godfather and her best friend are dragged into events surrounding the conspiracy and get into conflict with the criminal underground of Baden-Baden.

They also discover something else, something they, and the reader, were not expecting.

In short, Aetherhertz offers a unique setting and not just because

it is set in Germany, which is not just filled with stereotypical and badly portrayed Prussians, it is not even set in Prussia but rather in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

The background offers a lot of detail, the plot is dynam-ic with a few, but not too many, twists.

There are also a pinch of Shadowrun and some very steamy scenes in there for fla-vor.

All in all, Aetherhertz is an excellent novel, especial-ly considering it is Ms Bagus’ debut, and one no steampunk should miss, alas, at this mo-ment, it is only available in Ger-man.


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ArcaneArmoury and The Nav-igatrix are a brother and sister team with separate online shops at Etsy.com. They are both trained modelmak-ers that now run their own businesses, designing and creating original Steam-punk items.

They have shared a stall for two years running at Europe’s largest Ste-ampunk event, ‘Weekend at the Asy-lum’, run by the Victorian Steampunk Society.

http://steampunk.synthasite.com/

Matt of Arcane Armoury says: “I’ve been an industrial model maker now for the best part of 16 years, work-ing on film and television, exhibition and products, mostly building items designed by others. My Etsy shop is my chance to design and create props for sale to the public.

“Why Steampunk? I just like the aesthetic. You can make anything out of plastic but there’s a weight and feel to an item that’s been crafted from brass and wood that gives an item both quality and durability. It harks back to materials that were used commonly in the Victorian era, adding an authentic appearance to designs that never were.

I enjoy working closely with people on commissions for specif-ic ideas that they have. For example, one popular type of commission is for customized ‘Harmonic Screwdrivers’. Another is for prop weaponry; a note about this - due to recent legislation,

prop weapons are difficult to ship to some international countries.”

Matt welcomes all serious en-quiries. He can be contacted through

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Arca-neArmoury

Sally-Ann of The Navigatrix says: “I graduated with a Degree in Design Representation but after three years in the modelmaking industry, mainly working in architecture, realised that I was not utilising my creativity.

I retrained as a teacher and put my creative energies into my hobby of Live Roleplaying, which I’ve been do-ing for about 20 years.

Around the time that Matt start-ed his shop, a friend introduced me to the concept of Steampunk. I became inspired to put together a costume and created a character - being used to making characters with the help of LRP system guidelines, this was a strange experience.


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There were no limits! I re-searched Steampunk costumes online and came up with the idea of a female navigator and so, The Navigatrix was born. I made a hairclip for my cos-tume, realised that others might like them and asked Matt (knowing noth-ing of how Etsy works) if I could sell them in his shop. He just turned to me and said “ Why don’t you make your own shop?”

I use materials mostly bought from local charity shops and because of that, every design is an individual work of art. I love the earthy, rich co-lours of Steampunk fashion and the creative freedom to allow fantasy to mix with history.

Often, pieces inspire snippets of story that you can read in the item de-scriptions. Currently, I’m working on a range of tribal Steampunk which I have called the Aether Nomads range.”

Sally-Ann does not currently offer commissions but is happy to do small alterations. She can be contacted through

“We support each other, by modelling, discussing designs, finding materials and sharing each others’ shops.

We have made many wonderful friends and collaborated with some amazing artists through working in this genre. We look forward to hearing from you!”

Models: Georgina of Nevermore Dolls and Izabela of Prior Attire, Multibar-

relled Rifle for ArcaneArmoury.

ArcaneArmoury’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ArcaneArmoury/327731790607003

Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheNavigatrixThe Navigatrix on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Navigatrix-Steam-

punk-inspired-Original-Crafts/239246576161938?ref=hlSteampunk Share Page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steampunk-S

hare-Page/165519823610919?ref=hlTwitter: https://twitter.com/TheNavigatrix

Blogs ~ Blogspot: http://thenavigatrixatetsy.blogspot.co.uk/ ~ Tumblr: http://thenavigatrix.tumblr.com/

More photos on Instagram (http://instagram.com/thenavigatrix) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/thenavigatrix/boards/)


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Arthur Morgan is a French steampunk enthousiast. Edi-tor-in-chief for french-steampunk.fr, he has contributed to vari-ous publications in France and abroad (including the Steampunk Bible).

The imagery of steampunk has been endlessly fascinating since the creation of the genre in the 1980s.

But what are its origins? And what are its key works in literature, film or comic book form?

Written by Stephen Barilli-er, indisputable French expert on the genre, and Arthur Morgan, co-founder of the French Steam-punk community and editor in chief of French-steampunk.fr web-site, this guide provides an inven-tory of steampunk today, drawing, in particular, on interviews with Tim Powers, K. W. Jeter, James Blaylock, Greg Broadmore or Jess Nevins.

This book is an introducto-ry guide to the steampunk move-ment.

Among the articles on lit-erature, movies, music, comic books, the book gathers inter-views of many renown characters of the subculture. Foreword by SJ Chambers.

Featuring interviews from Ann Vandermeer, James P. Blay-lock, KW Jeter, Tim Powers, Greg Broadmore, Jess Nevins, Mark Hodder, George Mann, Captain Brown of Abney Park, Mike Per-schon and artists from the French steampunk community.

He also manage French Ste-ampunk facebook page and He is the co-author of Le Guide Steam-punk by Etienne Barillier.

Le Guide Steampunk

Gigantic machinery driven by steam, heroes in top hats and

monocles, heroines in crino-lines holding parasols…


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Balogun is the author of the bestselling Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within and screenwriter / producer / director of the films, A Single Link and Rite of Passage: Initiation.

He is one of the leading au-thorities on Steamfunk - a philos-ophy or style of writing that com-bines the African and / or African American culture and approach to life with that of the steampunk phi-losophy and / or steampunk fiction - and writes about it, the craft of writing, Sword & Soul and Steam-punk in general, at

http://chroniclesofharriet.com/.

He is author of five novels - the Steamfunk bestseller, MOSES: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2); the Urban Science Fiction saga, Redeemer; the Sword & Soul epic, Once Upon A Time In

Afrika, two Fight Fiction, New Pulp novellas - A Single Link and Fists of Afrika and he is contributing co-ed-itor of two anthologies: Ki: Khanga: The Anthology and Steamfunk.

Finally, Balogun is the Direc-tor and Fight Choreographer of the Steamfunk feature film, Rite of Pas-sage, which he wrote based on the short story, Rite of Passage, by au-thor Milton Davis.

Rite of Passage is a Steamfunk movie collaboration destined to

change the perception of historical fantasy. It’s the tale of the city of

Nicodemus, Kansas and the special souls that have gathered to protect

it. Based on a story by Milton Davis, Rite of Passage blends history, fantasy and Steamfunk into an exciting action

movie that draws you into the mys-terious, intriguing – and sometimes

frightening – world of Rite of Passage and the even bigger adventure yet to

come.


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A Drummer and 2 bassists, tours of Europe, US and UK.

Just people, trying to eat, from playing original simple en-joyable music, promoting steam-punk, and running steampunk events in a fair,

Honest and open manner.A mix of German and English members.

With Over 500 gigs, 76 orig-inal songs, showcases in Ham-burg, Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, Den-ver, London, Birmingham and tours across 2 continents, count-less Festival appearances, includ-

ing, Bearded Theory, The Rock and Blues, Sonic Rock Solstice, Cock-Rock, and many more,

BB BlackDog have become a live Band not to miss.

Using no overdubs, playing simple catchy music, remaining fiercely independent, and powered by a rapidly growing, loyal band of supporters, BB BlackDog are differ-ent, and that’s a good thing.

We run 3 Steampunk Events a Year at the Victorian Grand Pavil-lion Matlock Bath Derbyshire UK,

and also the Steam-punk Experience at Alt Fest.

www.alt-fest.com

Members: Axel Boldt, Drums..Molly May Hooper, Rythm Bass..

Dale Rowles, Lead Bass and Vocals..

Blutsvente Pulverfass Bass and Producer

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Judith Vogt, novel author, and Christian Vogt, physicist, are both fascinated by Steampunk and were awarded with the German fantasy award (Deutscher Phantastik Preis) for their joint work “Die zerbro-chene Puppe” (The Broken Doll) in the category “Best German-language novel”.

Last autumn, they (together with publisher Feder & Schwert) brought the short story project “Eis und Dampf” (Ice and Steam) to life via crowdfunding.

The short stories take place within the 19th century world of the novel.

The book contains not only Judith’s and Christian’s own

stories, but also those of ten excellent German authors

as well as two maps of an alternative ice age

Europe.

In February, during the project Steampunk Hands around the World, Judith and Christian will perform a reading in Frankfurt, to-gether with two outstanding Ger-man authors, Ju Honisch and Oliver Plaschka, which both publish ste-ampunk novels alongside their won-derful fantasy works.


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Decimononic designs and manufactures unique creations, mainly handcrafted fine jewelry and accessories inspired by Ste-ampunk, biomechanics, Art Nou-veau, ancient civilizations, 19th century, industrial culture - mak-ing the old new and the new old.

Promoted by Irene Lopez and Jose Francisco Alfaya, Deci-mononic was created in 2010 as a creative project. Its members believe in the beauty of craftwork, the power of experimentation and the value of singularity.

From their headquarters in Madrid, Spain, the Decimononic crew are active members of the national and international Ste-ampunk scenes, always willing to collaborate with other artists. Fur-ther, they spread the steampunk genre as bloggers and featured writers.

In this quest aimed to pi-oneer singularity, Decimononic has developed a comprehensive aesthetic proposal based on ex-haustive research and a mission of empowerment.

The concept of steampunk jewelry is one of its main fields of interest and for this reason the brief interview series ‘Steampunk

jewelry tonight with...’ has been underway since January 2012.

Jose Francisco Alfaya was born in 1978 in Vigo (Spain) and lives in Madrid at present.

With a professional back-ground in Sales and Marketing, he has proven experience in SME internationalization (Subject Mat-ter Expert)(B2B) and Managerial Positions.

He has travelled through Af-rica, Asia and Europe.

Close to different under-ground scenes since the mid 1990s, Jose Francisco is an active member of both national and international steampunk scenes since 2010.

As Managing Partner and founder, he is responsible for the conceptual and strategic develop-

ment of Decimononic, a creative project in the field of artisan jew-elry inspired by steampunk estab-lished in 2010.

In this context, he spreads the steampunk genre as a blogger and featured writer.

J ose Francisco’s main inter-ests are music, literature, photog-raphy and technology.

Also, he is fascinated by the dark side of the Victorian era, Far


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East Cultures, wuxia genre, and Dieselpunk with noir flavour.

Irene Lopez was born in Guadalajara (Spain) in 1979 and currently lives in Madrid.

With an Environmental Sciences degree by a prestigious Spanish university and some ex-perience as scholar including two research stays at University of Cal-ifornia (USA), she has a promis-ing career as civil servant.

Previously involved in some underground scenes, Irene has participated in the Steampunk community since 2010.

She is one of the founders of Decimononic, a creative proj-ect in the field of artisan jewelry inspired by Steampunk; being Managing Partner, she is respon-sible for its creative and technical sides.

As a firm believer in the DIY philosophy, Irene has always been interested in several handicrafts.

She has training as silver-smith and gradually improves her skills as pupil of the Argentinian jeweler Alejandro Allocco at pres-ent.

Besides metalsmithing, her main areas of interest are gas-tronomy, literature, music, pho-tography and modern history. Irene is charmed by Dieselpunk and is always keen to learn about the Spanish civil war and World War II.

Decimononic was born in 2010 as a creative project. Our members believe in the beauty of craftwork, the power of experimentation and

the value of singularity.

Our main sources of inspiration are Retrofuturisms, the darkest side of the Victorian era, biomechanics, industrial culture, Art-Nouveau,

ancient civilizations… making the old new and the new old.

At present we focus our efforts in the design and manufacture of unique creations, mainly handcrafted fine jewelry and accessories.


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Diana M. Pho (Ay-leen the Peacemaker) is a scholar, activist, blogger, and general rabble-rouser.

She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. from New York University. For sever-al years, she has traveled the country as a professional convention speaker about social justice issues and fan-dom.

Her academic published work can be found in Steampunk Maga-zine: Issues 1 – 7, Fashion Talks: Un-dressing the Power of Style, Steaming into a Victorian Future, the Journal of Victorian Culture Online, Over-land magazine, and the upcoming anthology Like Clockwork, edited by Professors Brian Croxall and Rachel Bowser.

Diana also wrote the introduc-tion for the recently-published steam-punk fashion book The Anatomy of Steampunk by Katherine Gleason.

She has been interviewed about steampunk and its evolving subculture for many media outlets, including BBC America, the Trav-el Channel, HGTV, and the Science Channel; the websites Airship Ambas-sador, Racialicious, and NerdCaliber; and the books The Steampunk Bible, Steampunk: Reloaded, and The Wis-Con Chronicles Vol 5.

Diana currently lives and works in New York City for Tor Books & blogs for Tor.com.

Since March 2010 she is autor at http://beyondvictoriana.com a blog about multicultural steampunk and retro-futurism—that is, steampunk outside of a Western-dominant, Eu-rocentric framework.

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After writing happily ever afters for all of her friends in school, Karina Cooper eventually grew up (sort of), went to work in the real world (kind of), where she decided that making stuff up was way more fun (true!).

She is the author of dark and sexy paranormal romances, steampunk adventures, crossover urban fantasy, and continues to write across multiple genres with mad glee.

Her award winning steam-punk series, The St. Croix Chron-

icles, has been nominated for multiple RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards.

One part glamour, one part dork and all imagination, Karina is also a gamer, an avid reader, a borderline hermit and an activ-ist. She co-exists with a husband, a menagerie and a severe coffee habit.

When she isn’t writing, Kari-na is an airship captain’s wife and Steampunk fashionista.

She lives in the beautiful and rainy Pacific Northwest with a husband, four cats, two rabbits, the fantasy of a dog, and a passel of adopted gamer geeks.

Visit her atwww.karinacooper.com,

because she says so.

The Unofficial Truth

I’m an author, a full-time writer with all the best parts and hard parts and insane parts that come with it.

I stay at home because I’m a closet introvert, but I love going to cons and events because I’m a masochist—I mean, a trained ex-trovert.

I grew up like some kind of wayward wanderer, moving every couple of years for no real reason, and those tendencies stuck.

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You can see it in my career history: graphic designer, comput-er networking student, POW/MIA volunteer, retailer, author, and so on.

As soon as I learned how to do a job well, I moved on to the next interesting thing.

Fortunately for me (and you!), there is no measure of “enough” for writing. When I feel content with one genre, I move to the next, and back again when the next great idea hits. It’s the ideal job for a nomad in disguise!

I have a mancandy, a fel-low that doesn’t just let me stay at hope to type like mad but who supports my dream in doing so, and a passel of animals that make every day a fuzzy bundle of sur-prises (some of the bile inducing kind).

I play video games—prefer-ably MMOs and RPGs—and table top games, I come from a hard-core LARP background and a Hordecore WoW history, and if you don’t know what any of these acronyms mean, don’t worry: I still like you!

Coffee addict, satsuma and cherry devourer, occasional ves-sel for Shabbith-Ka, and loud and proud geek girl, I’m happy to share my love of all the things with everyone. Frequently.


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There is this running joke among my friends and family that the next time someone asks me where I am from, I will answer with the name of some distant exotic lo-cale, such as Sumatra, or Timbuktu.

I recognize that I sometimes confuse people. They see my hijab (Muslim woman’s head scarf) and Muslim garb and assume I am from a far-away difficult to pronounce country.

Then they hear me speak with a distinct New England accent and become confused. Then upon fur-ther inquiry, I proceed to blow away every single other preconceived no-tion.

I was born in Rhode Island in 1970. The child of a U.S. Naval of-ficer, I moved around a bit until I ended up in New Haven, Connecti-cut where I grew up.

I’ve been married to my hus-band for more than twenty years and have three amazingly intelligent and artistic children who outstrip me in every way possible.

I work as an oncology nurse at a world renowned cancer center in Houston, Texas.

My greatest love, aspiration, and avocation is writing.

I am a Muslim and I pray five times a day.

I like video games, anime/comics, reading, walking, Wii box-ing, horror movies and zombies, and hanging out with my children.

I sew and along with my hus-band, I maintain a pretty spectacu-lar organic garden in my backyard.I am an indie author with one pub-lished novel entitled An Unproduc-tive Woman.

http://www.khaalidah.com


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Known internationally as Countessa Lenora, Canadian Queen of Steampunk, Lee Ann Farruga is the founder of Steampunk Canada, a national organization bringing to-gether steampunks from across Can-ada.

It provides a place for them to share their love of steampunk, to promote their local groups and to showcase their fine creations. It also works to educate the general public about this genre/community.

Lee A. Farruga has many tal-ents, lots of energy and, as Geeky Godmother, wants to help you achieve your goal, whether it’s orga-nizing your home, editing your book for publication, promoting your project, or planning your event. With a wave of her sassy wand (and lots of elbow grease) your dream will come true, better than you can imagine!

Founding member of Ste-ampunk Ottawa and Founder of Steampunk Canada, a national or-ganization bringing together local steampunk groups from across Can-ada.

Promote this genre/commu-nity in a large number of venues in-cluding book signings, social media, local events and at conventions large and small.

Conduct the genre and local groups to the attention of publish-ers and major media companies and continue to campaign to bring

steampunk to the attention of all Ca-nadians through more conventional exhibits. Local efforts have included tea parties, photo-shoots on Parlia-ment Hill, expeditions to carnivals and museums and mass costumed movie events.

Steampunk Canada is a na-tional organization to bring together all steampunks across Canada. It is a place for steampunks to find their local groups, local events, artisans, and steampunk news.

We are working to promote steampunk in a variety of venues including book signings, message boards, local events and conven-tions.

We have brought steampunk to the attention of publishers and major media companies and we are campaigning to bring steampunk to the attention of all Canadians through more conventional exhibits.

http://steampunkcanada.ca

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Lies Of The Machine is the first steampunk themed rock/metal band of Hungary.

The band was formed late spring of 2013 after a long and pain-ful search for members. Why was it so long and painful? Because, where-as there were many musicians look-ing for a rock/metal band around that time, steampunk, as a musical genre (and actually, as whole) was quite unknown in our little country.

Sure, there may have been a few people, who had some hazy ideas about what steampunk is (‘ar-en’t steampunks those fruity guys in those tall hats, with funny look-ing clothes? Ah, so lame...”), but the majority thought we want to create some kind of a twisted tribute to Sex Pistols.

Thankfully, by the beginning of May, our ragtag group of misfits was finally brought together, and lo, Lies Of the Machine was formed. Cen-tered around an alternate universe, where a ruthless warlord, nowadays just referred to as the Machine Lord (or “that damned rustbucket” by the

resistance), claimed near total dom-ination over his world. Our songs tell the tales of this land...from both sides.

Our first EP, “Daemocog” was released in November 2013, and is available for free download from our Facebook page.

The first song released from Daemocog:”The dishonorable death of the honorable Captin Vasilij”

Members:Dauda Judit - Vocals

Gubicza Klára - Keyboards and sam-pler

Andó Gergely - Guitar, and booze!Csóré Milán - Bass

Kristóf “Pitypang” Bence - DrumsBuza “Don” Balázs - Voc, Harsh voc,

general WTF on stage


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Lisa Walker England specializ-es in original steampunk and fanta-sy adventure that blend serial story-telling and audience interactivity to explore epic worlds.

In 2012, she launched her de-but Rise of the Tiger, a 48-episode steampunk fantasy serial. In 2013, the serial spun off into AURELIA: Edge of Darkness, a collaborative

web show that cast its audience as characters, telling the next chapter of the story.

A second season of AURELIA launched January 20, 2014, featur-ing new and returning volunteer ac-tors from around the globe.

With her friends at City Beast Studio, Lisa has also released the Aurelia Bestiary, a compendi-um of monsters, machines, and (steam-powered) mutants featured in the serial and show.

A resident of Milwaukee, Wis-consin, Lisa also blogs at lisawalk-erengland.com, teaches on fantasy- and steampunk-related topics, and is working on her second novel, a gaslamp fantasy.

As time allows, she also culti-vates an alternate life as Valuria T. Englehart, an unsuspecting spinster spy whose passion for intricate nee-dlework helps her collects a few use-ful (and dangerous!) yarns in Her Majesty’s service.

Links:Website:

lisawalkerengland.com

Rise of the TIger: riseofthetiger.com

Aurelia web show: theatrics.com/aurelia

City Beast Studio:citybeaststudio.com

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A TV and feature film writer, Madeleine has recently discovered that writing comics is way more fun and cannot wait to do more.

Winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting and numerous other awards while at UCLA Film School, she discovered Steampunk almost by acci-dent. (A very happy accident.) Former-ly a nationally ranked epee fencer, she has competed nationally and interna-tionally.

She is an avid reader of steam-punk, science fiction, fantasy and his-torical military fiction. Madeleine lives with her rocket scientist husband, Da-vid. She will also be running a Kick-starter starting Jan. 21 to fund a print run of chapter three in the six issue mini-series.

She will be writing an article on

Granville Woods, an African American engineer/scientist, who is a character in my steampunk supernatural web-comic BOSTON METAPHYSICAL SO-CIETY.

Boston Metaphysical Society is about an ex-Pinkerton detective and his spirit photographer partner who battle supernatural forces in late 1800’s Boston.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BostonMetaphysicalSociety-

ComicTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/

mhollyrosingGoogle+: https://plus.google.


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By Marcus R. Gilman

When Kevin Steil, the Airship Ambassador, first contacted me regard-ing his initiative Steampunk Hands around the World I actually thought it would be some type of fundraiser, which of course it is not. Instead it is a brilliant idea aimed towards connect-ing steampunks around the globe and showing steampunk is a global move-ment.

The brilliance lies in its simplic-ity, everybody can join in, provided they are on the internet which in this day and age is not an obstacle, espe-cially not for steampunks, after all, our scene galvanized and formed on the web.

This simplicity also means participation is free and need not be time-consuming, all it takes is a sim-ple tweed hashtag #steampunkhands, tweeted during February 2014 and you are in.

When Kevin took me into the planning group, it was already evident, his plan was going to work, almost ev-ery member of the group (it was about a dozen then, but more were to come) was from a different country and al-ready covering every continent except for Asia and Africa and within two days, someone from Japan joined. I think there are far too few ini-tiatives like this around, simple things for everybody. Most of the time, de-spite the activities on the internet, ste-

ampunks in my experience operate lo-cally, sometimes vehemently so.

Then you sometimes meet at conventions, of which there are many in the USA but not so many elsewhere, between conventions, there is relative-ly little interaction or not as much as could be.

Also, and again this is my expe-rience, others may well have had dif-ferent ones, the nature of the internet makes it easy to loose contact and miss the big picture. There are plen-ty of steampunk groups on Facebook and also several forums on the web in general. Nobody really has the time or the language skills to be active in all of them.

So I think most steampunks stick to the groups, forums and sites they know and where their friends are. Action becomes digitally localized.

So, in a strange way, the internet right now separates us, not geograph-ically but rather socially, or should I say tribally. You choose your tribe, the people you get along with best, which translates into a certain forum or group and you stay there.

The Steampunk Hands around the World initiative is a step to rem-edy this situation, to get people into contact with new faces around the web and demonstrate how widespread ste-ampunk is and that it is a global move-ment. If everything goes well, maybe this is the first of many those events.

After all, Steampunk Hands around the World is ridiculously easy to participate in and only slightly more complex to organize. We could make this a yearly staple of the steampunk scene or maybe even do it twice a year.

However, doing it too often may actually turn it into “just another event”, so it should not be done to fre-quently to keep it a special occasion.

Another effect Steampunk Hands around the World could have, is of course inspire others to do some-thing similar.

So maybe, there will be regular international hangouts on G+ in addi-tion to the tweetchat which is already happening.

Or maybe some of the peo-ple participating would be up for a multi-national steampunk podcast. Who knows what the future may bring or where this initiative could lead in the end.

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Marcus Rauchfuss is the author of the Traveler’s Steampunk Blog, and central coordinator of the European Steampunk Convention. He is also a minor Cthulhu Mythos scholar and his final thesis at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, was on the Cthul-hu Mythos.

Born in Germany, he thinks of “Nottingham” as his hometown, and is pan-European when it comes to pro-moting the steampunk scene.

A life-long zeppelin enthusiast, Marcus first made contact with what he would later know as steampunk in the summer of 1992 through “A No-

As a side note, one of Kevin’s aims was, as stated in the original email I received:

“The basic idea is Steampunk Hands Around the World as some way to show that our community is indeed global, and the world is made a bit smaller and friendlier because of it.”

Sadly, I have made the exact op-posite experience in one particular fo-rum while trying to promote this event: Ridicule, hostility and insults.

Yes, just as it is with every com-munity, steampunk, too, has its share of nasty people, trolls, bullies.

Luckily, this has been the excep-tion, everybody else I approached re-acted positively, even with enthusiasm.

So, let’s see how Steampunk Hands around the World works out, it is looking good already. Also, let’s hope this will only be the first of a se-ries of events like this, for every steam-punk around the globe, because this is a global subculture!

mad of the Time Streams” by Michael Moorcock. He became more immersed in steampunk after discovering music group, Abney Park in June 2008.

In July, 2008, the Traveler’s Ste-ampunk Blog was set up, originally intended to be a steampunk-themed travel blog. Marcus’ involvement with the community has only grown ever since.

Through the blog, he has made contact with steampunks around the globe and has become involved in sev-eral other projects. Marcus is a regular contributor to the Gatehouse Gazette and has also written articles for El In-

vestigador, Dieselpunks.org, and the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences.

On the 28th of September, 2012, just one day before the first European Steampunk Convention, he celebrated a personal milestone: the publication of a non-fiction book on steampunk, “Steampunk- kurz & geek”, which he wrote togeth-er with Alex Jahnke of Clockworker.de. “Kurz & geek” is the first German non-fiction book on steampunk, which has won a German Fantasy Literature award Deutscher Phantas-tik Preis 2013 for best non-fiction.


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Michael Coorlim is a post-modern psychopomp, heroic word-smith, freelance shaman, Taoscor-dian Monk, and Master of Rowdy Bliss.

He also writes fast-paced sto-ries about authentic people in fan-tastic situations, plots with a twist of the surreal, set in worlds just a half-step from our own.

They include the Galvanic Century steampunk series and the Grief apocalyptic short story collec-tion. He dabbles in screenwriting, loves indie video games, and can be a bit of a foodie. Chicago’s a good city for it.

He also writes the indie-fo-cused book blog Book Nouveau.

You can find his fiction on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Ap-ple, and Smashwords.

If you want early notifications of upcoming titles, discounts, give-aways, and other fun you can sub-scribe to his new release mailing list. You can also find him on facebook and twitter as @mcoorlim. Email him at [email protected] – he’d love to hear from you.

Quite the mouthful! Let’s break that down.

I see it as my duty to guide readers to the kind of media they need to be consuming.

I do my part by reviewing and recommending well written and en-gaging self-published books, and by writing good books across genre.

I try to provide fiction that’s fast-paced and character driven to bring you to the story you need to be told. You do the heavy lifting, though; meaning is created in the mind of the reader. I just provide you with a catalyst.

I’ve always wanted to be a writ-er, but it’s taken me quite the har-rowing journey to get to the point I’m at. I was destitute and homeless when I started writing back at the end of 2011, unable to find any free-lance or temp work.

Since I had so much free time, between job searches I wrote a short story (Acceptance, later part of the Grief collection) and sent it off to a magazine.

They said that it was good, “Brutal in a Lord of the Flies way,” but not what they needed at the mo-ment.

I’d been reading about the growth of self-publishing, so instead of sending Acceptance off to anoth-er fiction market and waiting anoth-er few months for a response I up-loaded it to Amazon.

Within a week I’d made $10, so I wrote a few other stories, in-cluding And They Called Her Spider. January earned me $120, and in six


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months I was making enough to quit the job search, move off of my friend’s couch, and start looking for an apartment.

While I do dance my spirit an-imal on a regular basis, I’m talking here about being a mediator and traveler between worlds.

For our purposes we’ll focus on the fictive life of the mind and the oft harsh light of physical reali-ty. Ideas come to me. I convert them into stories and make them avail-able to readers. The cycle continues.

Taoscordian MonkPart Taoist. Part Discordian. All Monk.

Subjective reality is quite lit-erally a matter of opinion. Our pre-conceived notions of the way the world works determines what senso-ry data we perceive as relevant, and that data is what makes up our in-ner model of the universe.

If you’re a pessimist or a cyn-ic, you’ll see the parts of your reality that reinforce those attitudes more than the parts that don’t.

I choose to be a bit of an op-timist. Though some of the books I write can be dark and disturbing, and I do have my moods, I don’t approach the universe like a hostile place I need to protect myself from.

Reality is my dance partner, and I embrace it, and while it can sometimes be terrifying it’s also ex-hilarating.

I inhale life and I exhale story. Sometimes there aren’t any happy endings, and that’s okay, too.

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Josué Ramos (Ferrol, 1987)http://tercerafundacion.net/biblio-

teca/ver/persona/23606

Since I was a little boy, I al-ways liked to read and to write. I re-member I filled an entire notebook with a lot of stories about the same theme and protagonists when I was about 6 or 7 years old.

Back then, it was just a kid’s entertainment and was unimportant so I got rid of that notebook. Now I know that was my very first novella.

With the passing of the years, mi interest to write was renovat-ed by the highschool, where I took back the stories little by little until I won a historical literature contest

for young people when I was 16.

I can remember that prize and the motivation it gave to me as the starting point of my career.

Back then, despite also write historical accounts, what obsesses to me was the more classic sci-fi, in-fluenced mainly by Issac Asimov or Ray Bradbury; which took me, after reading “I, Robot” to what became into my first novella: “La última con-spiración” (The last conspiration, edited by Atlantis), novella that I didn’t decide to publish until 2012.

Meanwhile, I continued my education in the stories, publishing in some anthologies and special-ized magazines, and expanding my record of writing to other kinds of genres.

2009 was an important year to me. Curiously, both stories of that time that I’m prouder were written that year: “Asimo”, sci-fi chosen by Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (Fantasy sci-fi and terror Spanish associa-tion), as one of the best of the year; and “Cyro”, terror, published on an-thology “Monstruos de la Razón I” (Monsters of the reason volume I), with a list of author that still today make me feel vertigo.

But the most important of that year was to discover that one of my hobbies was called “Steam-punk”.

Since then, I got involved more and more into that genre, publishing two novellas of that one: “Ecos de Voces Lejanas” (Echoes of

distant voices, published by Seleer, 2012) and “Lendaria” (published by DLorean, 2013).

Inside Steampunk and with Paulo César Ramírez, also brought to light the first anthology series wrote by Steampunks and in Span-ish, which I am the coordinator with Publishing house Tyrannosau-rus Books: “Ácronos”; which second volume will be published this Febru-ary 2014.

This is, no doubt, our biggest goal in Steampunk literature. And, of course, from this association also came my “inevitable” inclusion in the team of regular writers of El In-vestigador, which I’m very happy to work in since 2011.


Of course, the Steampunk is also present in the soties I write. If my memory serves, I have eight pub-lished stories of this genre in various anthologies and at least three more in the process of editing, in order to be published next spring.

Besides, I also write usually on my personal blog “MundoSteam-punk.Net” trying to give a true re-flection of the actual situation of the literature and the Steampunk Scene in Spain.

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I´m a Czech writer and illus-trator, was born in spring 1987 in Ostrava.

I write especially steampunk story ( for example http://palmkni-hy.cz/web/kniha/jupiter-6-steam-punk-6040.htm ) and create steam-punk jewellery and art.

My home page is https://www.facebook.com/gabriel-

letaroka

Where i have my articles and samples of work, including videos.

I´m external editor from czech steampunk blog:

http://www.steamzine.cz/

Born in 1987 in Ostrava. currently resides in Skalici u Frýdku - Místku . She graduated from Mendel University in Brno (study program for

garden and landscape architecture).She began at an early age, writing poetry , which appeared ( and still

appears occasionally ) in various collections .Entered into the public consciousness participation in the competition

Gorge shadow of death in 2007 , which was 7 instead of the short story “The King of Ghosts” and in 2009 the first instead of the short

story “ Dole” both under the pseudonym of Gabrielle Taroko .In 2011, it won in international competition Bestfiction ( AnimeSHOW

in Bratislava ) 2nd instead of the short story “Darkness “.


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History: Early century 18th the Real Audiencia de Quito takes the con-trol of the Ecutorial land when they were free from the Spanish domain, an era of political and social chang-es where civil wars were constants and the desires of freedom were high.

In the middle of this era, Cap-tain Albian Pinzon, fascinated by steam machines and its technology travels around the world looking for information thinking of revolution the world.

Throughout his different stops, arrives to Ecuador, where proposes the construction of a steam powered Ship that could fly trough skies without being seen: The Kunturi. His younger ideas and blue-prints where left to Doctor Diethelm

Lucasta who heir his knowledge to his daughter Harisia, the one who disappeared during the eruption of Chimborazo volcano.

This is a long story but in a brief summary Harisia will look for Captain and his crew.

With the passing of time is in-volved in different troubles, Captain is pursued by many countries but in his adventures meet to those who will be part of his future crew. To realize his plans he met with them again, all of them have their own goals to reach, scores to settle and intricate histories but a common goal: to travel around the world with their Captain. This way was born the Kunturi Ship, named because of the bird emblem of the Andean Condor region. Kunturi means condor in quichua.

The year is 1873 and Kunturi’s crew take off from Tierra de Fuego.

Characters:

Our group was born as a co-splay one called “Cosplayeros Qui-to” during 2009, making different thems and presentations in the country. With the passing of years

and looking for the innovation in our goals, we found Steampunk since 2012 developing the story of each character. From then on, we make different workshops of how to make your own weapons, clothes and had given conferences in cultur-al events.

In the story during the trav-els of Captain the characters stick together to the plans of the ship, most of them have their origins in other countries since the idea is to give the image of the world from that era. Right now we are about 18 members, Harisia and Graifus are the representatives.


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Poison Garden was born with the aim of mixing modern rock/metaltendencies with Steam-punkelements in order to create an original and evocative sound.

That’s how a young couple spends the first two years of mar-riage; dominated by their creativ-ity they try to express the word of steam which lies in their minds.

During summer 2012, a well-experienced guitarist decides to take an active part in the proj-ect. Amazed by the potentiality of the tracks and fascinated by the plot that connects them, he in-volves a talented drummer.

The co-operation becomes so exciting to lead the band to the production of their first single - Days of Steam - which has been of-ficially presented on 30/31 March 2013 @ Steampact, The First Ital-ian Steampunk Festival.

Fully convinced that wear-ing a brown corset and a top hat is not enough to play retro-futur-istic music, Poison Garden aims at releasing Steampunk from the framework of role-playing games

and comics fairs in order to intro-duce it in the everyday life of the rising century: a “street”Steam-punk, a Neo Steampunk.

www.poisongarden.it

www.facebook.com/pgsteam-punk

THE FIRST ITALIAN STEAMPUNK BAND

Have you ever imagined what a gramophone would have played if rock was born two centuries ago?

Poison Garden is the answer: a modern and aggressive sound sunk

into the noise of a century that never was.

PAST BEGINS TODAY.


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She’s a retronaut, seeker of lost memories in the coffers of a time that could have been. Spontaneous promot-er of Retrofuturisms and Steampunk music in Latin-America.

Founder of “Sociedad Steam-punk Argentina”, “Sindicato Diesel-punk”, “Dieselpunk Argentina” and “Steamgoth Argentina”.

Organizer of Steampunk/Die-selpunk events for “Argentina”. She’s member of the artistic collective Mer-cenarios de DIOS; she’s also dedicated to the analysis of the scene from dif-ferent contexts and cultures where it could be developed.

She’s from Buenos Aires, Argen-tina; her real name in Andrea R. Díaz Boglioli. Her interest in the scene led her to promote and revive the commu-nity of her country that was inactive with only 80 members back in 2011.

From then on, the growth as continuous and make them able to es-tablish a stable community with regu-lar meetings, participating in various conventions and organizing their own events.

Being their main goal to save the manners and lost elements of the history of their own culture, from the era in which the Steampunk is inspired, amalgam with the current era, consid-ering herself as a “Retrofuturistic Ma-leva”, or a Steampunk with a twist of Tango.

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Ray Dean was born and raised in Hawaii where she spent many a quiet hour reading and writing sto-ries.

Performing in theater and working backstage lead her into the delights of Living History that in-cluded Civil War Reenacting (1860-1865 America). Creating her own worlds through writing seemed the next logical step, Historical set-tings are her first love, but there is something heady about twisting the threads of time into little knots and creating new timelines to explore.

There are endless possibili-ties that she is just beginning to ex-plore. Her stories have appeared in ‘Shanghai Steam’ and ‘Steamfunk!’ Anthologies with more on the way.

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the clear sky; the upper regions of air beyond the clouds

www.raydean.net “My Ethereality” blog

- “Fire in the Sky” in Shanghai Steam- “A Will of Iron”

in Steamfunk! Anthology- “Folie a Deux”

in All the Night-Tide(coming in 2014)

- “Practically Perfect” in Kisses by Clockwork


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HISTORY OF A LAUNCH

September 2013, a sunny afternoon in Bilbao. A good tea and better accompanied, Este-ban García and Patxi Larrabe presented to the socity their new invention: NeoNauta Edi-ciones.

The date wasn’t a random choose, it is the last day of Eu-roSteamCon Bilbao, in which both of them had contributed so much, giving their sweat and sleep hours in order to make it work.

But, what is this pair of restless creatives pretend-ing whit their new publishing house? NeoNaute Ediciones wants to be a bridge between yesterday and today, giving the opportunity to the artists from today to feel a little like yester-day’s, saving old formats such as the paperback, the feuilleton or the trading cards, symbols of an era in which imagination

wasn’t at the mercy of the e-read-ers’ devices.

NeoNauta Ediciones was born from the nostalgic for ad-venture and emotions; definitely, because of the necessity of evade ourselves, of diving into paper seas. In their books you’ll find sci-fi, fantasy, mistery, western… and also Steampunk, zombies and games, because everyone has dreamt at least once on recreate the adventures of their favorite book’s heroes.

Their first literary bet will be “Reward”, a novel wrote by the writer and artist Paulo César Ramírez who will give a lot to talk about to the fans of weird western with Steampunk twists. Through-out February will be released the universe of “Reward” and its pe-culiar characters on the Publish-ing house’s web.

By summer, will also be published the anthology “Alambre de Letras” (Wire of Letters), a collection of tales inspired on The Great War in order to make and obeisance to this almost forgotten his-torical milestone.

There will be room for a lot of mud and some cogs too.

NEONAUTA EDICIONES’ TEAM

Esteban García, Drafts-man, decorator, photogra-pher, carpenter and connois-seur of studies in architecture, engineering and publicity.

Autonomous pro and founder of his own construc-tion company. Esteban is a passionate fan of comics, role playing games and board games.

In 2011 co-founded “Turno a turno” (Round by round) an ambitious blog about the world of board games and late 2013 go on board into the rocket of Neo-Nauta Ediciones.

Patxi Larrabe, Com-puter profession. Writer, role playing gamer and musician vocation.

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Unconditional fan of the retro, underground and the low budget, restlessly looking for the missing link between role playing games, pulp liter-ature and heavy metal.

In 2013 beggins to con-tribute with the Steampunk magazine “El Investigador,

and also won the contest “Aman-ecer Pulp” (Pulp Dawn) organized by RelatosPulp.com with his story “La Zarpa Roja contra la amena-za de los hombres-lagarto” (The Red Claw versus the threat of Liz-ard-men).

Soon will be published his story “Eslabones Anónimos”

(Anonimous links) on the third collection of the publish-ing house Planes B dedicated to Gaslamp Fantasy.

Nowadays is member of the independent artistic col-lective “Mercenarios de DIOS” and crosses the space on board of NeoNauta Ediciones’ rocket as first mate and scientific offi-cer.

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As a publishing house, in NeoNauta Ediciones want to be in touch with authors who like to create adventures in a pulp or popular stile, no matter the genre: sci-fi, fantasy, war, west-ern, mistery, spies, Steampunk, terror, etc.

Send your proposals to [email protected] and they will contact you.


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Suna Dasi, the founder of Ste-ampunk India, considers herself a di-rect product of the British Empire.

Her ancestors left Madras in 1861, on a British East India ship, bound for the Caribbean as indentured workers. Her grandfather was born on a Scottish-owned sugar, banana and coconut plantation in St. Vincent, and raised a Hindu. He was eventually re-leased from his born status and mar-ried a native girl from the Dutch Carib-bean.

Steampunk India is currently brought to you from Edinburgh, Scot-land. Suna Dasi wanted to write Indian Steampunk because she wanted to read it. As there was a lack of the characters and settings she wished for most, she began developing plot lines and people until they were clamouring to be writ-ten down.

She believes firmly that politi-cal correctness is more crippling than common sense and should be ingest-ed in small doses... With that in mind, she’d like to present a world and char-acters that are three-dimensional and engaging.

She enjoys lacing her fiction with strong female protagonists, a live-ly dollop of general irreverence and some inevitable social commentary. The photo gallery on her website is her way of working out certain characters that exist in the alternate India she is giving shape.

Suna Dasi is very pleased to be involved in Steampunk Hands Around the World, as she thinks the breaking of both taboos and boundaries is a al-ways a good idea.She will be contrib-uting by uploading an exclusive Valen-tine’s Day story on her site on the 14th of February and will also re-release the video she made for EuroSteamCon in 2013.

In this video she was asked to speak about what Steampunk means to her and it is extremely relevant to the central aim of the Steampunk Hands project.

Steampunk India can be followed on:

www.steampunkindia.com www.twitter.com/SteampunkIndia

www.facebook.com/SteampunkIndia www.steampunkindia.wordpress.com


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What is the Steam Rocket ?

Steam Rocket is a non-profit organization that was launched in 2012.

Its objective and will are to promote culture and in particular Steampunk culture, through event organization and showcasing of art-ists and crafters.

It is a young but busy orga-nization, adding up more than ten events and many partnerships in less than two years.

Doing so we actively partic-ipate to the french speaking ste-ampunk community, trying to see things bigger - and different.

Curiosity, open-mindedness and sense of fun are the fuel we rely on to explore new horizons !

Events... We organize events to pro-mote steampunk culture in a two-ways movement:

1 bring it to unexpected plac-es so a broader audience can discov-er it

2 bring unexpected/new/fa-mous events to the community so it can be surprised and have fun

We try to make them as im-mersive as we can, so the audience is litterally speaking transported to a different place and time ; visitors are fascinated, and steampunks feel at home.

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To do so we work with profes-sional set decorators on a regular basis, and of course with semi-pro-fessional and professional actors of the community.… and crafters

We think that Art is artists, before anything else. As Steampunk movement is based on Art, Creation and the talent of the ones that cre-ate, crafters and artists are the core of Steampunk.

Consequently it sounds log-ical - and fair – for us to promote artists as much as we can, so they can reach bigger renown.For fun !

The first event we organized was the opening stage of the Steam-Tour in 2012, a french event that gathers steampunks in three differ-ents places each year.

We engaged this first edition with a whole week-end of animation : picnic next to the Eiffel Tower, vis-its of museums and flea-market, and gigs of Victor Sierra and Frenchy & the Punk on a river boat.

Next we co-organized show-case projects in international events such as Japan Expo, Geekopolis Jules Verne Adventure Festival and Medieval Fair in Paris to promote Steampunk to new audience, each time being a real success.

Now we are scheduling a new Steam Tour stage with Abney Park for 2014 Spring, and we will do our best to make it a great moment.


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Thomas and Nimue Brown share a love of gothic decay, po-etry, wild landscapes and strange creatures.

They have been collaborat-ing for years, brought together ini-tially by a publishing house. In the summer of 2009 they launched The Hopeless Vendetta – a weekly newspaper charting life on the fic-tional island of Hopeless.

The Hopeless, Maine graph-ic novel series is now published by Archaia Entertainment.

The Browns are collective-ly influenced by Robert Holdstock, Neil Gaiman, Lord Dunsany, the pre-Raphelites, folklore and the modern druid tradition.

Goth and steam-punk also turn up in the mix, as does anything else they run into. Both have worked separately in their respective fields.

Tom has created covers for Professor Elemental and Cavan Scott (among many others) Ni-mue writes poetry as Brynneth Nimue and other fiction under a pen name.

They are at their happiest and most creative when collabo-rating; inspiring and challenging each other to test abilities and ideas to the limits.

http://www.archaia.com/archaia-titles/hopeless-maine/

http://copperage.deviantart.com/

http://druidlife.wordpress.com/


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CABARET DE MEDIANOCHE BIOGRAPHY

“Cabaret de Medianoche” (Midnight cabaret), in its first in-carnation, was born and died in a fleetingly way in early 2009 in order to illustrate the Dark Caba-ret festivities we carried out peri-odically at the disco Demonix in Barcelona.

Since 2011 with our own domain, came back with a brand new podcast and emissions in different free broadcasts in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, a news blog and more festivities, concerts and events.

XAVI QUERO

Interested on fantasy and sci-fi in the middle of 90s, to dis-cover the world of fantasy and steam from the role playing game “Castle Falkenstein” by Mike Pondsmith made him to fall in love with the Steampunk.

Also the crash with culture, gothic music and Broadway’s mu-sicals drove him to begin as a dj in 2001 and since 2007 with dark cabaret; this is the kind of music

that could fusion gotic culture with musicals, so does with dark cabaret which was becoming into

Steampunk since 2009.

Since 2011 commanding the web “Cabaret de Mediano-che” were weekly releases new podcasts, and news -almost daily- about the dark cabaret, alterna-tive country and steampunk.


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Victor Sierra answer some questions about Steampunk

Why is steampunk import-ant to you?

In the first place as I often answer steampunk found us and not the other way around. Don’t be mistaken I’m not boasting or being preposterous. The fact is we were steampunks before we knew it.

So to encounter this excit-ing and liberating aesthetic move-ment has changed our lives, sud-denly we are no longer alone and it’s such an inspiring environment for us. Retro-futurism (of which steampunk is a category) has al-

ways been very important to us.

Why is the steampunk com-munity important to you?

We’re on the same page with many people. We collaborate with many steampunk artists, writers, musicians, and probably will with painters and stage designers in the future.

And we communicate a lot with the community all around the world through social net-works. The steampunk communi-ty knows no borders.

Why are you so active in the community, creating what you do?

Because I can’t do other-wise! It’s some kind of a cool disease I’ve got. As soon as we’re done with an album or a single I already have new songs compos-ing in my mind and to be honest sometimes it’s rather tiring.

But above all I’m so hap-py when our audience is touched by our music and our videos. We have other projects too which are top secret, which we are sure our audience will enjoy.

What benefits do you see others and yourself gaining from being part of the community?

The Steampunk community is in a state of continual reinven-


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tion because of the level of artistry and genius that exists out there.

It would be rather unusual if I didn’t find out about some-thing new – let’s say – every week at least -- some new contraption, some new review, etc.

We swim in very rewarding seas and I hope that the commu-nity finds inspiration in what we

do as much as we do in them.

How has steampunk affect-ed, changed, enhanced your view of the world, the people in it, and your place in all of that?

I wouldn’t say it has changed anything for me. It has confirmed my ways of viewing the world have always been out of the ordinary

and that my mind was working in the right creative direction and in a way that pleases me.

We have many projects with many people and naturally our place evolves as our audience grows. So in that sense yes, it en-hances our possibilities --it broad-ens our horizon.

How has steampunk, and the community, affected you per-sonally?

I am more confident. Until I found about steampunk and the steampunk community we felt iso-lated.

Now and then I feel a sense of release -- like I’m free from restrictions because contrary to many other cultural environments steampunk isn’t limited by stupid rules and such. Sky is the limit dude!

If you could package it as a gift and give it to others, what is your personal best, happiest, favorite moment in your involve-ment in steampunk?

Obviously our gigs in the USA at Steampunk World’s Fair. I wish every convention in the world having the same success. 4000 people! It was a dream come true for us.

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Greetings Ladies and Gen-tlemen , excuse me no closer to shake hands , but from the dark-er corner in the eagle’s nest , is where you have the best viewing angle.

Sometimes have had other names battle as Gorgonzola666, the nameless ninja, but lately I answer the call to Mr Xpike, they call me Mr. for the reason that I have become old, have 36 years and 14 years in the busi-ness.

I’m a decent family man, married with responsibilities, 4 cats and a dog ... but make no mistake, I will always have the pen ready to action. I belong to the Mercenary Legion , and I am responsible for giving the collective image , I ‘m in the search of images and concepts primarily for the de-velopment of this magazine in their hands , I make logos and corporate identity of the group and am responsible for the most

editorial design numbers of El Investigador, also i researcher and tarnish the image of Uncle chutuhllu with comic strip Messie Thulluh.

Was honored to create the image of mexico steampunk, i work making some illustrations

for advertising campaigns in my city ...


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by the way, i’m originally from Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico and currently reside at the bor-der, Tijuana Baja California.

If you want to know my hideous face only searches the archive of mercenaries and on you can see me on the cover of the first issue of our magazine.

I’m not the social type so I leave the rest of the external work to my comrades in arms, but I’m not closed to external collaboration.

Excuse my English, but I can hardly speak my native lan-guage, thank google translate to facilitate the work.

To see my work as both a mercenary and foreign agent , visit my deviant art gallery :http://mrxpk.deviantart.com/

http://xpk.tumblr.com/

and some direct contact , someone disappear or just a comment they can direct their pigeons to email:

[email protected]

My academic background is degree in graphic de-sign for communication completed at the Univer-sity of london, I am also a professional computer technician with knowl-edge of mechanics and electronics, studied at

the Polytechnic School of Jalisco.

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by N. Inmunsapá

Some years had already passed by since K. W. Jeter coined the word “Steampunk”. Trough all this time, Steampunk has been de-veloping and growing up further on the literary genre in which be-gan, reaching other artistic slopes as diverse and varied as the imagi-nation and creativity owned by any of its creators.

Nowadays and since more than five years internet has became a enabling environment for the Steampunk to grow up, to develop itself and to fasten in the taste of thousands of people around the world. Steampunk is not limited to Victorian London which is its main inspiration, is not even limited to United States of America, where year by year hundreds of persons attend to different conventions in different cities around the country.

There are Steampunk all over the world, from artists who contrib-ute with their pieces to fans who are captivated by aesthetics, clothes, stories and freedom to develop cre-ativity that offers the Steampunk.

That’s why when Kevin D. Steil himself invited me to participate into a project that has the goal of show that our community is global, able to be reunited and to minimize distances trough Internet, I just couldn’t refuse. No one of those few firsts con-vened by Kevin had the clear idea of the project would look like; not even Kevin himself, with all the experience he has partic-ipating in conven-tions and writ-

ing news from all over the world on his blog Airship Ambassador, knew how could it be.

The very firsts who attended the call only knew that the name of the project was “Steampunk Hands around the World” and that we were there with the strong desire to give our hands to take forward the idea. Little by little the group was growing up, every member invited to someone else, people interest on the project and on the Steam-

punk.

On January 7 the press re-lease started its route from various sites, being published in English, Spanish, German and French; this managed to attract more people with the desire of being part of an

unprecedented event in the history of Steampunk around the world.

The intention behind all this is not only to promote the Steam-punk and show it to those who don’t know about it yet; but also raise

awareness on other expressions from different countries to people who are already in the movement.

Recalling in particular that, even Steampunk exists as a hobby, the most important thing is peo-ple who make it work; from crafts-men, graphic artists, musicians, writers, promoters and analysts to every single san from all over the world.

Steampunk Hands Around The World had reunited people from countries so different from each other such as Germany, Ar-gentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Scotland, Spain, United States, France, Hun-gary, England, Italy, Japan, Mex-ico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Uruguay the sole purpose of shaking hands and show the world what Steam-punks can do when friends gather and will does exists.

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