For those of you not already aware (though how you could not be, given we had flyers at Euchronia and have been cheerfully waving the flag since we were aware of the event, we have no earthly idea), Continuum 5: Galaxies by Gaslight is happening later this year and is wonderfully steampunk themed! But for [...]

Egads! We’ve been informed by the Powers That Be that we must finalise our ticket sales 14 days in advance of the Tram Voyage, not 48 hours as we’d previous been advised! This means there are only 10 days til the cutoff date, and for those of you waiting til the last minute hoping tickets [...]

Ahem. In a most delightfully macabre segue (and completely unrelated in origin from our previous post), making a Google search for the terms “cut throat razor” and “Steampunk” netted as the top result this gem of a thread on mess+noise, a well known Antipodean music discussion forum. Major props for the giggles, lads. Do read [...]

Melbourne’s The Age today reports that local biomedical scientist Geoff Crawford is currently hunting the bones of an ex-pat Londoner named Frederick Deeming, executed in Old Melbourne Gaol in 1892 for the murder of his wife, because he believes DNA evidence will show that Deeming was the Jack the Ripper. Unsuccessfully defended by Alfred Deakin—who [...]

Sydney author Richard Harland’s Dickensian Steampunk novel “Worldshaker” (reviewed here), due locally next month from Allen and Unwin, has been resold to an unnamed US publisher. The Australian edition is illustrated by “Jasper Morello” director Anthony Lucas, and the story features a steam-powered, mobile city.

Costuming Adelaide, the South Australian branch of the Australian Costumer’s Guild, has two Steampunk-oriented events forthcoming in 2009: “The Maiden Flight of the Olympia” on the 13th of June, and “Steve’s Steampunk Extravaganza” on the 13th of September. Both events will include Live Action Role Playing elements, as well as authentic period garb. The first [...]

Have just discovered that Antipodean moviemaker Anthony Lucas’ justifiably famous (and Academy Award-nominated) “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello” has been available legally, gratis, on YouTube, since October last year. It’s available as a single 26-minute High Quality video, which thankfully sidesteps the traditional graininess of YT’s offerings. (Sadly, Lucas’ impressive “Holding Your Breath” [...]

The redoubtable Make magazine’s Volume 17 is titled “Lost Knowledge”, and features “projects and articles covering the steampunk scene”. Subscribers receive free access to their digital edition.

Jess Nevins‘ “The Nineteenth Century Roots of Steampunk” (a version of which introduced the VanderMeers’ Steampunk) is a cover story in the January 2009 issue of NYRSF. It discusses the dime novel fad for “Boy Inventor Conquers the Redskins” style colonialist fiction towards the turn of the previous century, which matured into the less morally [...]