An airship flight must be everyone’s idea of a good time. An airship flight over Venus, however, now that’s something else. “Venus By Air” promises the interplanetary traveler an extraordinary voyage by dirigible over the surface of the planet that is apparently inhabited by tailed humanoid creatures!

All kinds of wonders are lurking about the corners of our solar system, on the wonderful interplanetary travel posters of a Mr Steve Thomas. From a flight by “Europa Air” to Jupiter is just a day to a midnight express past the rings of Saturn, these retro-futuristic posters promise you the stars!

Steampunk is “History in the Making” with the second issue of the Gatehouse Gazette, released this September.

From the origins of World War I by Mr Robert Rodgers to an article about Japan’s reasons for attacking Pearl Harbor by Mr J.D. Roger, it is history that the contributors to the Gazette are writing. Between all this war, there is fortunately more adventurious spirit also, in a narrative about the first motorized crossing of the Sahara, by Mr Joost van Ekris, a report on steampunkness in Disneyland Resort Paris, by Ms Hilde Heyvaert, plus an article about Hugh Ferriss, “delineator of Gotham”. And the Gazette offers an exclusive preview of Mr Toby Frost’s upcoming novel, God Emperor of Didcot!

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The artisan of this lovely piece of steampunk-styled jewelry hides behind the banner of Heterodyne Designs where “rare artifacts and oddities” are assembled by the artisan herself, a Miss Alexandra Sforza, as well as her sister, Victoria. They provide much of their whimsical creations for sale there, though they may also be contemplated in a Profile with no strings attached.

Mr Jack Rose of the blog, Gearing Up, sat down for an Interview with Miss Sforza, Alexandra that is, a little while ago, in which she talks about what inspired her work (Jules Verne, Indiana Jones, and Girl Genius, to list a few) as well as what made her interested in crafting steampunk jewelry specifically. “I’d been looking at steampunk items for a long while,” she explains, though when she developed a liking for the steampunk aesthetic, “crafters were far and few between.” Fortunately, the appreciator of steampunk jewelry today is better off, for, as Miss Sforza notes, nowadays, “there are hundreds of steampunk artists all making lovely things.”

“The new steampunk & dieselpunk magazine” is here with the release of the first issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.

In this first issue, the reader with find an introduction to the genre of dieselpunk by Piecraft and Ottens, an interview with Toby Frost, author of the steampunk-in-space novel, Space Captain Smith, an article about the gentleman in modern times by Delphinius Tucker, steampunk fashion and couture by Hilde Heyvaert, a review of the latest Indiana Jones film by Jack Rose, steampunk poetry, essays, cartoons—and more!

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This beautiful “Retro Alarm Clock” should make a most fashionable addition to any steampunk enthusiasts’ sleeping quarters! Devised by a Mr Ulrik Nielsen from Denmark, the clock is painted in appropriate brass, which, with the emarald green of the inner parts of the little machine, makes for a perfect steampunk contraption!

Please do delight Mr Nielsen with a visit to his Profile, where further photographs of his creation may be appreciated in the Stock category. (I must warn though, that some of the imagery on display there might not be considered entirely “work-safe”!)

Every once in a while, it’s good to appreciate the beauty of some fine aerial pirate’s dirigible, so here goes! This lovely artwork was done by the talented artist(s) of Studio Octavia and called the Dragonship. More depictions of the Dragonship are available at the Studio’s website, where also much more wonderful imagery of other (sometimes steam-powered) devices may be appreciated!

Space Captain Smith is a recently-published steampunk novel by a Mr Toby Frost about a Captain Isambard Smith in service of the British Space Empire! Bringing steampunk into outer space, Mr Frost throws our Captain Smith in peril and adventure as he seeks to rescue a psychic hippy maiden from a hippy world and bring her to the safety of Her Majesty’s Interstellar Imperium, which is evidently threatened by legions of bloodthirsty ant-men, religious lunatics, and other rum types!

Amidst all this insanty, Smith has only his trusted sidekicks to count upon: a rampaging alien with a literal take on life, and a renegade android with a secret past and a hitman on her tail. “Will our hero get the girl, ” asks Mr Frost at the fine Website which he maintains about his novel, “or will the ghastly Ghast do unspeakable things to him? Only one way to find out – brace yourself for a stirring tale of war, romance, tea and tiffin in Space Captain Smith.”

Mr Jesse van Dijk is a conceptual artist and illustrator from The Netherlands, whose Project Indigo may be of particular interest to the steampunk enthusiasts (though his portfolio in general is of extraordinary quality).

Project Indigo envisions a vertical seaside metropolis in a world where dry land is extremely precious. The city is constructed around a huge pillar in a cavity in the seas, in seventeenth-century European style. Because flat ground is so rare, only the wealthy can afford to live atop the pillar, where the climate is comfortable and sun-hours are plentiful. Further below dwell the poorer, their lives illuminated by artificial light from mostly oil lamps, as depicted in the painting above, which shows the city at 300 metres down.

Please visit Mr Van Dijk’s Website to explore the fascinating world of Indigo, and of course to appreciate the other paintings of this talented artist!

Mr Art Donovan is a most talented inventor who has been building lovely steampunk lamps for quite some time now, and clocks lately too!

This photograph depicts the crown of the “Thin White Duke,” a steampunk table lamp standing 50″ tall and measuring 21″ wide at its lampshade. It is entirely hand-made of solid mahogany, brass, bronze mesh and steel–and the bulbs operate independently by brass control sticks on the base!

Mr Donovan maintains a wonderful collection of some of his finest creations at a Website we definitely recommend you check out!

Though Mr Alex C.F. dislikes his work being labeled “steampunk,” his creations are definitely of interest to the steampunk enthusiast, especially when they were supposedly devised during the nineteenth century.

His latest invention is this “Chrono Displacement Device”, i.e.: time machine, which apparently sat unused in the halls of the Temporal Council for nearly half a century until in 1880, the Royal Academy Science Fair demanded something rather auspicious for their grand opening. Probably having been amused with the Lost World tales of the late Professor Challenger recently, the fine gentlemen of the Royal Academy decided that some large prehistoric creature ought to be brought forth from the past and revealed to a horrified and excitable crowd. In spite of protests from the Temporal Council as well as various animals’ rights groups, a young male Allosaur was revealed to the public on the morning of July 5th. Terrified and high on miscalculated doses of sedatives, the dinosaur broke free of its shackles and prompty killed half a dozen spectators before being tranquilized and sent back to the late Jurassic. Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, who naturally attended the opening, was quoted remarking, “What a marvelous opening to the proceedings.”

That is, according to the imagination of Mr C.F., whose contraption, in spite of its modest size, is evidently able to teleport large objects through time! Read more about his wonderful invention over at his Blog.