Winners of The Steampunk Chronicle’s 2015 Reader’s Choice Awards

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2015 Readers Choice Awards

The Steampunk Chronicle is pleased to announces the winners of the 2015 Reader’s Choice Awards

The editors of The Steampunk Chronicle want to thank ALL of the readers who took the time to nominate and to vote this year, and to all the nominees and winners for being good sports.

Without further ado, the winners:

2015 Winners Music Album of the Year Circling by Unwoman Best Band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Best Group Performance (non-music) League of S.T.E.A.M. Best Music Video Savant – “Kali 47” by Mike Diva & League of STEAM Best Performance Artist Captain Lucky (Aether Brigade) Best Personality (real person) Professor Elemental Best Podcast The Clockwork Cabaret Best Solo Musician Unwoman Song of the Year Lindsey Stirling ‘Shatter Me’ Media Best Feature Length Film War of the Worlds: Goliath Best Photographer SoulStealer Photography-Martin Soulstealer Best Short Film Savant Kali 47 – Savant, Mike Diva, League of S.T.E.A.M Best TV Series Ripper Street Best Web Series The League of S.T.E.A.M. Best Website Airship Ambassador Literature Best Children’s Steampunk Fiction Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC by Liza Falenstern Best Young Adult Steampunk Fiction Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger Best Fiction Steampunk World, edited by Sarah Hans Best Steampunk Poetry Arthur Foot III Best Graphic Novel Clockwork Watch Best Maker Book The Steampunk Adventurer’s Guide: Contraptions, Creations, and Curiosities Anyone Can Make Best Non- fiction The Steampunk UserÇA Manual by Jeff VanderMeer and Desirina Boskovich Best Steampunk Periodical Ladies of Steampunk Magazine Best Steampunk Script Count Rostov – Rayguns in Aspic 3 Best Artist/Illustrator Brian Kessinger Best Web Comic Girl Genius Crafting Best Airship design US Aeronautical Forces #1 by Tony Lee Best Goggles Factoria Goggles Best Maker-Group League of S.T.E.A.M. Best Maker-Individual Brett King Cockpit Best Mobile Build (r/c non-vehicle) T.E.A. Fighter by Claude McDonald Best piece of Accessory Equipment Broadarrow Jack – Tea Dueling Pack Best Use of Leather RJ Foster – Captain Nemo suit Best use of Lights Abbey by Paige Gardner Best use of Motors (non-vehicle) Gossamer the Dragon by Claude McDonald Best use of Sound Mina A Miniature Music Hall by Brett King Best Vehicle The Time Machine by Thomas Galvin III Best Weaponry The Ayrton Arc Caster by Brett King Fashion Best Corset Maker Jenny Garside / Wyte Phantom Best Costume, Dieselpunk Sonja Mist by El Costurero Real Best Costume – Group Hatton Cross Steampunk, Under the sea Best Costume – Individual Original Heather Dawson Best Costume – Individual Recreation Aleta Pardalis – Steampunk Malificent Best Designer – Group or Collective League of S.T.E.A.M. Best Designer – Individual Joanna Read Best Designer – Non-US Joanna Read Best Dressed -Female Laura Meyer Best Dressed -Male Phil Powell Best Jewelry Designer Dr. Brassy Steamington Best Milliner Deborah Olson Milliner Extraordinaire Best Place to Shop – Online or Retail Clockwork Couture Events Best Steampunk Track in a Federated (aka Mega) Convention Dragon*Con Best Small Steampunk Convention Wild Wild West Con Best Overall Convention TeslaCon Best Steampunk Event (non-convention) Gaslight Gathering Best Convention for Performances TeslaCon Best Convention for Parties TeslaCon Best Convention Party Host Eric Larson ( Lord Bobbins) Teslacon Best Convention show or event MC Eric Larson (Lord Bobbins) Convention Director of the Year Eric Larson (Lord Bobbins)-Teslacon Best Non-US Based Convention The Asylum – UK Best regional convention -Mid Atlantic ConTemporal Best regional convention -Southeast AnachroCon Best regional convention -Northeast Steampunk Worlds Fair Best regional convention -Southwest Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention Best regional convention -Midwest TeslaCon Steamlife Best Character/Persona Captain Rheinhardt Krieger, Teslacon Most Steampunk Location Bristol CT Carousel Museum Best Themed Cafe or Bar Clockwork Emporium & Cafe Most Steampunk Drink Gin Best Multicultural Steampunk The Airship Ashanti Best Politically minded Steampunk Lisa Hager Best Crowdfunded Project The League of Steam, Season 3 Steam-Hunk Heath Howes (Dr. Proctocus) Steampunk Pinup Girl Tallulah Love Steampunk “Heart of Brass” (Female) Claire Peacey – Empire Edibles Steampunk “Heart of Brass” (Male) Captain Bill Bill (aka Bill Harrison) Steampunk Person to Watch in 2015 Eric Larson(Lord Bobbins) Steampunk Group/Couple to Watch in 2015 League of S.T.E.A.M.