Steampunk Magazine #7: airships, hot air balloons, Alice, politics and steam!

Allegra sez, "Issue #7 of SteamPunk Magazine is now available for order and (as always) free download via the SteamPunk Magazine website. With fiction about hot air balloons and airships (why choose when you can have both?), poems about Alice in Wonderland, articles about building your own island and a good slathering of politics, we honestly believe that Issue #7 is our best yet!"

Issue #7 Released! (Thanks, Allegra!)

Previously:

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freshacconci

The girl on the cover it totally hot. Never bought into the whole steampunk thing. It’s like goth for people who should really know better. But if steampunk attracts women like her…
Anonymous

http://steelchair53.blogspot.com/2010/07/steam-punk-deep-space-oil-refinery.html
sigismund

In this issue you can read that wonderful sentence : “Less brass goggles, more brass knuckles.” How true !!! Steampunk has become just another fashion trend, and I hate that “no goggles, no steampunk” snobbish attitude. To hell with the goggles !!!
SFedor

That’s not Steampunk! :)
jimfrombrooklyn

I really wish the front page of this magazine was designed with a letter press like this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koenig%27s_steam_press_-_1814.png

and not with bad photoshop glow around the masthead. Seriously. This fake steampunk stuff is lame. In Iowa I went to the “Old Threshers Reunion” and saw 120 year old tractors that looked like mutant steam locamotives that belched clouds of coal smoke. thats real steampunk. If you ask me.
- Foxie
  
  I like the way you just the worth of the magazine based purely on a .jpg of the cover and, because it looks like someone may have used a computer (someone getting something on the Internet with a computer?!) deem the whole magazine to be ‘fake steampunk’. Now, that’s Steampunk!
jimfrombrooklyn

seriously. At least put serifs on that font.
- freshacconci
  
  Actually, sans serif type was used in the 19th century, usually for advertising and signage.
Sproogle

IF IT WASN’T PRINTED WITH A STEAM-POWERED ANTIQUE PRINTING PRESS THEN I DON’T THINK WE CAN CALL THIS STEAMPUNK ALSO THE INK SHOULD BE FROM SQUID HARVESTED BY MEN ENCASED IN ALL-BRASS DIVING SUITS THEN IT WOULD REALLY BE STEAMPUNK.
Wuss Brillis

What’s with the CAPS sPROOGLE?

I had to change my glasses otherwise I would have been unable to agree or not with the squid thing.
- Pantograph
  
  It’s period appropriate.
  ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION WAS ALL CAPS IN THE 19TH CENTURY.
  Be glad he didn’t write in morse code.
  - Wuss Brillis
    
    THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR EXPLANATION STOP.