About

What Are We?

Vagrants are…

  • A collective;
  • A publishing house;
  • A record label;
  • Makers;
  • Steampunks;
  • History buffs;
  • Geeks;
  • Anarchists;
  • Not anarchists;
  • Activists;
  • Writers;
  • Musicians;
  • Artists;
  • The publishers of SteamPunk Magazine.

Who Are We?

The Vagrants collective formed in the summer of 2009 from the supporters and regular contributors to SteamPunk Magazine, as it became increasingly necessary to found a publisher to release the magazine outside of the US (alongside Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness). However, it didn’t take the Vagrants long to realise that they wanted to do more… much, much more.

Soon plans were forming to bring out all sorts of weird and wonderful books, chapbooks, music, artwork and myriad other projects — all inspired by the collective’s steampunk roots, but not necessarily limited by them. The unwritten objective has always been to mix together the past, the present and the future to see what happens, then to release the ensuing madness upon the world.

Many (although not all) of our number are anarchists, libertarians, activists, woolly liberals or else otherwise left-wing. The result of this is that pretty much everything we bring out is Creative Commons licensed (meaning that so long as you credit the original creators, don’t make any money from it and use the same license that we do, you’re welcome to do whatever the hell you want with pretty much anything that you’ll find on this site). It also means that, wherever it is inhumanly possible, we make everything that we produce available for free download, as well as keeping the for-purchase hardcopies as close to the cost of production as we can get them and still keep bringing out new material. This outlook is still pretty slow to stick in some industries (most notably in the music business, if only because albums generally cost much more to produce than books) but we’re working on that one too.

As to who we are, you can find a list of some of the regular members of the Vagrants collective at the top of our Links &c page.

Where Are We?

If you need to contact us, please drop us a line at vagrants[at]amongruins[dot]org

Where is Steampunk?

Steampunk is many different things to many different people. If you’re completely clueless on it, then it never hurts to start with Wikipedia!