Mr Willbourn of Stentor Industries, raygun and prop-weapon maker of no small repute, has constructed the above Steampunk device for protecting Her Majesty’s new airship division from the burgeoning (and scurrilous) pirate contingent of the lighter than air international traffic.  The Horatio Boarder Repeller is designed for hand use, and fires both a sonic blast for stunning your terribly impolite foes, but a near-impossibly thin harpoon function for really showing your enemies that you refuse to be boarded!  Lovely work, Mr Willbourn!

Well!  It is my great pleasure to pass on to those who might be interested, that the new-Vaudeville group, White Mischief, will be hosting a night of extravagance, delight and debauchery in London on the 10th of November (Saturday).  The night, entitled “From the Earth, to the Moon” takes its inspiration from Steampunk, Verne, HG Wells, gaslight romances and all the other wonderful things that we also enjoy so much.

A night for fun-seeking adults; circus-style performances, live-action silent movies, music of multiple flavours, cabaret and burlesque and (in the most perfect example of a job description to kill for) Edwardian Space Pirates.  Dressing up, and dressing fabulously, strongly encouraged, and there’ll be prizes for those who turn heads the best.  All in all – it sounds delicious and very tempting indeed – though those of a sensitive nature should be warned that the glimpse of an ankle would be the least of your worries!  (Thank you, Mr Tobias and good luck!)

Ms Lyssie Algorithim confesses to being a Doctor Who fan, and I can empathise – while it’s only the most recent Doctors that has really caught my attention (having grown up with the 8th Doctor on my television) I know there’s a lot more to it, and that fans have not so much been transfixed by the show, but inspired in spades.

Above, is the work of DeviantArtist Promus-Kaa, and is one of a series of Steampunk reimaginings of the iconic Doctor Who characters. As well as the above dalek, there’s a cyberman, the highly advanced robotic-dog K-9, and a TARDIS (time machine in the shape of a British police box). Interestingly, he also had a go at an Art-Deco dalek too. Oh, and if you’re curious, apparently the backgrounds for many of these pictures are care of GeneralVyse, who does some impressive WW1 era uniforms and illustrations. Thank you Ms Algorithim and Mr Swinehart!

Mr Handbook, from the forum, has recently revealed his scientific apperatus for the study of aetheric energies on lifeforms – in this case, fish.  Known as the “Aquatic Observation of Channeled Aetheric Energies” or A.O.C.A.E. for short, this mostly spherical construction channels aetheric energies through the venusuan crystal in the chamber at the top and manifests itself to the human eye as a violet-tinted glow.

Of course, the medical applications for such a device will be soon to follow (just as they were for electricity and uranium) but at the moment the aetheric energies refuse to apply their lifegiving properties outwith a watery medium.  No doubt Mr Handbook will triumph, however.

The scientific apperatus is equipped with a magnifying glass, all the better to see the piscine participants within, and with sturdy mechanical graspers for holding extra notes and equipment.  A wonderful device, and I look forward to the bright future that aetheric medicinal applications so obviously have.  (Good goggles, too, Sir.)

The wondrous publication, The Steampunk Magazine, has recently birthed its third issue! Subtitled “The Sky Is Falling”, this issues theme is the apocalypse, and how it might arrive and be dealt with in a Steampunk manner. From what the best parts of a dead car are to scavenge, to what likelihood that cyberpunk staple gray goo has of deconstructing us all, to an impassioned plea to recycle and reuse to avert (or reduce) environmental catastrophe.

In addition, there are very useful looking patterns for making your own spats and aviators helmet (should you make some, do let me know), an article on airships, and interviews with both Alan Moore (he of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic (UK,US) and more) and Doctor Steel – mostly benevolent world-emperor to be (and musician). To top it all off, there is the usual high quality of written fiction to accompany the other more practical texts.

Also, should you be in New York City on the 20th of October, the Dances of Vice cabaret club’s Blue Moon Masquerade Ball will be hosting the official Steampunk Magazine Issue 3 party, with prizes and such for best masquerade costumes. Sounds like a most interesting evening indeed!

The enchantingly named, Dusty Hawthorne, wrote to point out a simply stunning museum in Paris called the Musée des Arts et Métiers – or The Museum of Arts and Trades.  Their ‘virtual museum visit’ in particular is wonderful (if a little flash-based) and has such fantastic categories as Scientific Instruments, Telecommunications, Power and Energy and Transport – with descriptions and images of items categorized into pre-1750’s, 1750’s to 1850’s, 1850’s to 1950’s and post-1950.  So much there from the Victorian era, and will no doubt please the Steampunk fan of brass and cogs. There is a beautiful surfeit of things of brass and wood, and apparently the museum itself is reached through a medieval church with beautiful flying machines (such as the Eole bat-plane above) hanging from intricately carved ceilings.  A visual feast; where beauty and science are dramatically entwined, where history smells of varnish, tarnish and soot, and where three-wheeled steam carriages rest proudly next to hand-cranked cinomatographs.

Thankyou Dusty!  It does look a wonderful place to see.  (If you wish to find the virtual museum, in French, click ‘Collections’ and ‘Discover the Museum’).

The sequel to Larklight, the young-at-heart-person’s novel set in possibly the most delightfully Steampunk solarsystem, is called Starcross, and much to my surprise the nice people at Amazon saw fit to furnish me with my preordered copy almost a week before I expected it.  Hurrah!

Once again following the adventures of the Mumby family and their very dear friends, what was initially set to be a delightful retreat from the chaos of redecorating a ramshackle orbital home becomes something much more sinister and thrilling!  The hotel Starcross is an example of refined opulence and where your every need is catered to by custom made automatons, but through unnatural phenomena the hotel and its guests are cut off from the outside world and a double ‘murder’ is discovered.  With aether pirates, secret agents, space trains, perfectly wonderful Hats (the best in the known galaxy), time travel, rousing rowdy drinkinghall songs, and enemies both familiar and new – this is most definitely an excellent continuation of the Larklight trilogy.  If you’ve ever wished you could spot and name a hundred inhabited asteroids and hunt giant icthyomorphs from the luxury cabin of your trans-aether steamtrain, then you’ll be in good hands. I did feel that once again that when one or other of the parents were in the scene, that the book fell a little flat – as parents do have a terrible habit of taking over and doing everything right, just like in real life.  I would also highly recommend that Starcross should not be read in isolation, but as a continuation of Larklight – there are several characters that could possibly confuse, otherwise.  However I still very happily commend it to anyone who fancies some exciting and wonderous adventure, beautifully and richly illustrated, in a wonderfully realised Steampunk universe.  I look forward to the third in the series – Mothstorm! (Starcross: UK/US Amazon. Larklight: US/US Amazon. These links are affiliated, your hood not winked by me.)

AlexCF (who has made too many wonderful things to mention) has just finished his latest masterwork – the Bio-Ætheric Laboratory.  From a world where Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein was closer to the truth than polite society would like to believe, this mobile laboratory of shamed and shunned Doctor Belacleese contains some of the artifacts of his gruesome trade and obsession.  Utilising the very life-force of the poor and desperate, the ‘good’ Doctor exploited the Victorian fear of death to fund his re-animation research – resulting in the above moving, twitching, ‘living’ ape arm, now rotting from decades of unlife.

As well as the arm, the laboratory contains dissecting tools, syringes, unidentified biological liquids and detailed notes and diagrams.  More pictures from the forum thread, or from Alex’s own page.  Stunning, dark and wonderful – a triumph of skill.

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Oh what a beautiful, well crafted babbage-related machine this is!  From the Mod-Planet forum (in Polish?), in a thread entitled “Steampunk FTW!”, forum member Korko_Czong has made this wonderful, beautiful brass and wood PC case that is water cooled and glows in a most disarming manner.

It’s a stunning piece of functional work – the pipes on the top actually do transmit the cooling liquid, though from what I can gather from the garbled online translation I think the guages are ornamental.  I may be wrong though.  There are a great many more images on that thread, both finished and in progress.  My hat is off to the gentleman who made it – I hope he is exceptionally proud of his creation!  I believe he’s looking to other PC accessories now for his next project, but how can he top that!  Thanks to Mr Epp (for spotting this on BoingBoing) and Mr MagnusApollo on the Steampunk Forum!

Dr Julius T. Roundbottom, scientist and philosopher extraordinaire, writes from a world not quite like our own, and documents his findings in the realm of (un)natural science.  Using new-fangled aetheric trasmission technology, we are able to read and indeed communicate with the good Doctor, and are able to discuss such photographic studies as faery tree mating displays, miniature golems from Outer Klall, and the shy, but common, maned sprite.

Dr Roundbottom seems to still be getting comfortable at the moment, but it certainly bodes well for more studies from a world not quite like our own.  Read more from the good Dr at Clockpunk.com.  Thanks to Mesdames Kowall and Henderson for bringing this to my attention.