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Title: Steampunk Magic: Working Magic Aboard the Airship
Author(s): Gypsey Elaine Teague
Publisher: Weiser Books
Publication Date: March 2013
ISBN: 157863539X
ISBN-13: 978-1578635399
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A glove full of Goth, a helping of Sci-Fi, and a vial of Cyberpunk all neatly wrapped inside a Victorian Satchel--the popular new genre of Steampunk is reverberating throughout our culture in art, fashion, style and music.

Now you can hop aboard the airship and embark on a spiritual adventure that brings dramatic ritual and practical magic into your everyday life with Steampunk Magic. Gypsey Elaine Teague draws on her experience as a practicing High Priestess and magician and her love of Steampunk to bring readers an entirely new magical system.
Steampunk Magic is a compendium of altar arrangements, spells, and magical tools--traditional Wicca and magic with a Steampunk twist. Teague shows how to craft and use a compass instead of a pentacle, use a rigging knife in place of an athame, and join an airship in lieu of a coven. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and art.

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Title: Steampunk Magic: Working Magic Aboard the Airship
Author(s): Gypsey Elaine Teague
Publisher: Weiser Books
Publication Date: March 2013
ISBN: 157863539X
ISBN-13: 978-1578635399
Current Price and More Info from Amazon

[size=+1]Description:[/size]
A glove full of Goth, a helping of Sci-Fi, and a vial of Cyberpunk all neatly wrapped inside a Victorian Satchel--the popular new genre of Steampunk is reverberating throughout our culture in art, fashion, style and music.

Now you can hop aboard the airship and embark on a spiritual adventure that brings dramatic ritual and practical magic into your everyday life with Steampunk Magic. Gypsey Elaine Teague draws on her experience as a practicing High Priestess and magician and her love of Steampunk to bring readers an entirely new magical system.
Steampunk Magic is a compendium of altar arrangements, spells, and magical tools--traditional Wicca and magic with a Steampunk twist. Teague shows how to craft and use a compass instead of a pentacle, use a rigging knife in place of an athame, and join an airship in lieu of a coven. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and art.

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This looks like an interesting read.  However I don't understand how 'steampunk' spell's' relate to  our physical existence.  Perhaps on an Astral steampunk zone they are of interest and use.  It seems an almost chaos magick approach to adopt a paradigm and try it out.  Could someone perhaps review the book some more?

From a quick look at this book at the bookstore a few weeks ago, it looks like it is just steampunk fiction flavored Neo-Wicca -- which at least makes it one of the more original types of Neo-Wicca.

 
Hmm, sort of like the pop culture worship thread?

From a quick look at this book at the bookstore a few weeks ago, it looks like it is just steampunk fiction flavored Neo-Wicca -- which at least makes it one of the more original types of Neo-Wicca.

That was my impression as well.  Also a good inspiration for those who wanted to add a bit of "magic(k)" to a steampunk-flavored RPG.

Hmm, sort of like the pop culture worship thread?

Similar, I guess. A wiccan-flavored alternate history version?

Yeah, the book sounded interesting until Wicca was mentioned.

So I put a hold in on this book pretty much as soon as it was mentioned with my local library, but tragically, it seems both copies were lost.

Seriously, wtf.

Not to be deterred, I've put in an interlibrary loan request instead. I am determined to see if it's as bad as it sounds.

The question is whether some Christians stole it to keep out of the hands of people, or if some pagans stole it rather than paying for it.

 
Hard to say up here. The library has a pretty broad selection of pagan-ish books, most of which are there when I look for them, so my instinct is the latter. Unless they're anti-steampunk? I've noticed several of the steampunk books going missing...

Pagan books are among the most commonly stolen by libraries (that and books about sex) - pretty much every librarian I've talked to figures it's a roughly even split between people who abhor the content, and people who want to keep the content for themselves.

 
I'm just sort of amazed because the library has several shelves of pagan books at multiple branches that I've seen, and I've never had this much trouble tracking one down before. Both were in the system but checked out when I put a hold in, and both were "lost" almost simultaneously. So either way it's certainly possible but still weird.

Maybe one of the local high schools is now hiding an AIRSHIP COVEN and I should be on the lookout for sky pirates or something.