Big River Steampunk Festival
Twenty thousand goggles descended on Hannibal, Missouri this Labor Day weekend for the 11th Annual Big River Steampunk Festival, and if you slept on it again, that's on you. Historic…
From the archives
2026
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Employee Handbook: Portsmouth Aeroshipbuilding Co.
Someone applied the Formulae to a WWII shipyard employee manual, and the result is exactly as beautiful and deranged as that sounds. South Carolina artist Tony Snipes is Kickstarting Employee…
Shadow of the Road
Feudal Japan. Boshin War. Steam-powered war machines stomping through ancient temple courtyards while yokai tear into imperial soldiers from the shadows. The British East Nippon Company (yes, really) has handed…
Hubble: The Perfect Mistake
In 1990 NASA launched the finest telescope ever built, and it came back blurred. Its mirror had been polished more precisely than any large mirror in history — to the wrong shape, too flat at the edge by about two microns, one-fiftieth the width of a human hair.
2026 Hugo Award Winners
The rockets have landed. Last night at LAcon V in Anaheim, the 2026 Hugo Awards were handed out at a live ceremony, and the sci-fi/fantasy community has (once again) argued…
Brass & Embers
A new steampunk TTRPG just landed on Kickstarter, and The Doctor is paying attention. Brass & Embers, from Questborne Studios out of Orlando, runs on a D6 system and drops…
The Ghost in the Shell (2026)
Science Saru (the studio that gave us Dandadan) just went and made the Ghost in the Shell adaptation the manga has deserved for thirty-plus years. Not a remake of the…
Weekend at the Asylum 16
It's here. Tomorrow. Weekend at the Asylum 16 descends on Lincoln, UK August 28-31, and if you're not already on a transatlantic flight with your brass goggles fogged from the…
Amherstburg Uncommon Festival
A free outdoor steampunk festival in a historic Ontario town near Detroit, running September 18 through 20: gears, top hats, axe throwing, teapot racing, a wizard academy, a steampunk opera…
The Code That Would Not Die
On 1 August 2012, two hundred and twelve ordinary customer orders arrived at Knight Capital. Forty-five minutes later the firm had made four million trades and lost roughly ten million dollars a minute.