The Big LonCon3 roundup post

Below is my roundup of all the con reports and other blog posts about LonCon3 I could find, to be updated later. Be sure to also check out the comments for anything I missed:

On diversity and accessibility

• What I Did On My Holidays (Nine Worlds, LonCon3) – LonCon was conscious about diversity to the point that I know a few people of colour felt they were only on panels about not being white and/or western, and there were still a number of well meaning con-goers** whose “welcome” to all these new young fans was more cringeworthy than encouraging (shoutout to Will, who not only rescued me from one of these situations but did so with wine). Occasionally Men Told Me Things.
• Flat Out: Worldcon on Wheels – I rolled up at the Excel bright and early on Thursday 14th, and I have to say Access was excellent. I was greeted by one of the volunteers before I even reached the registration queue, which they told me was 45 minutes long at that point, and whisked away to the Access Desk, where I was given a seat while the volunteer dashed off to pick up my badge and registration packet. Even the failure of the Access ribbons to appear was being dealt with courtesy of improvisation with tape and a marker pen in the best traditions of fandom.
• Conventions, hierarchies and forced diversity | The 13th Colony – And this was something that appears to be continually driven through over the weekend, or at the very least the panels that I’ve sat and spoken in: the ageism, sexism, racism, anti-academic-ism, hierarchism and various other -isms. I have no doubt Worldcon means a lot to the people who have been going to the convention throughout the decades it has been running and has forged a community there. I even understand the protectionism that they feel when hordes of media fans invade, because yes, sometimes we haven’t read the book or appreciate the fight to be legitimised back in the day but does that make our experience less valid, and therefore devalued?
• On LonCon3, Diversity and Hierarchies | bethanvjones – And that wasn’t the only dismissive attitude I saw in relation to LGBTQIA people. Another panellist used the offhand ‘gender-whatever’ in discussing diversity. I tweeted about these instances, as did others, and from what I’ve heard they weren’t the only ones. But on the flip side I also saw how quickly the con organisers were to deal with racism and how supported one of my fellow panellists felt by them.
• Diversity in Fandom: Lessons from Worldcon — Sean McLachlan

Panel reports

• Worlcon: the Business of Writing — Flat Out
• Academics at Worldcon – What Went Wrong? — Cheryl Morgan
• Random Notes on Programming — File 770
• Always Outside, Looking In — Floris M. Kleijne (In Dutch)
• Always Outside, Looking In — Floris M. Kleijne (English)
• The Canon is Dead. What Now? — Kate Nepveu
• Cities – who, where and why? — Kaberett
• Content and Form: Writing SF/F in non-Western Modes — Kate Nepveu
• Deconstructing Steampunk — Carabas
• Economy and Class in Literature: Kate Wood’s presentation of Economic Systems of Science Fiction
• Fallen London: Recreating London in Games — Kate Nepveu
• Fan Activism — Kate Nepveu
• Feminism and Sexism in Fandom — Kate Nepveu
• The Gendered AI — Kate Nepveu
• I Before They, Except After You — Kate Nepveu
• Imagining fantasy lands — Kaberett
• Imagining Fantasy Lands — Kate Nepveu
• Imagining Fantasy Lands — Readerbound
• Queer Desires in Fandom — Readerbound
• A Queerer War — Kaberett
• Rat’s Monkey’s Ass — Nick Falkner
• Reading the Other — Readerbound
• When is fantasy not fantasy — Teodor Reljic
• Representation, Whitewashing & Internationalism — Kaberett
• The Ruling Party — Kaberett
• Ships, Clocks & Stars/Longitude Punk’d — Kaberett
• Short Fiction is dead. Long live Short Fiction — Esther Scherpenisse (Dutch)
• A Singularity for the Rest of Us — Kaberett
• A Singularity for the Rest of Us — Readerbound
• Speculative Biology — Pluviann
• The Superhero-Industrial Complex — Kate Nepveu
• Tall Technical Tales — Carabas
• Translating Genre — Kate Nepveu
• Urban Fantasy: London — Carabas
• We Have Always Fought — Kaberett
• We Have to Talk about TED — Nick Falkner
• Welcome to Night Vale — Kate Nepveu
• the World@WorldCon German SFF — Kaberett
• YA Literature at LonCon3 — Em Underwood
• #Loncon3 – THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE PANEL ABOUT INDIE PUBLISHING, WITHOUT AN INDIE PUBLISHER ON THE PANEL | deborahjay

General Con reports

• We’re back from the future — From the company that provided some of the furniture for the con (!)
• Worldcon Day 1, 2, 3 — Les lectures de Mariejuliet (French)
• Ensimmäistä kertaa Worldconissa (Finnish)
• LonCon3: I was there — inuit panda scarlet carwash
• LonCon3 wrap up and picspam — Fran Wilde
• LonCon3 Report! — cwena
• Better late than never, the Loncon3 report — Selenay
• LonCon3. Why I was wrong not to come sooner and why you should be here next time
• My LonCon, part 2 — iainjclark’s Mysterious World
• Lo que la LonCon3 trajo (Spanish)
• Cwena’s LonCon3
• Karl-Johan’s LonCon3 report
• A rebuff to that Daily dot article about the generation gap at Worldcon — Miss Hallelujah
• LonCon3: Five Days in Geek Heaven — The Velvet Café
• First day at Worldcon, second day — Viv’s Academic Blog
• The Dealers Room — Deborah Jay
• Destroying London — Carabas
• Why Am I at this Con — Ann Dulhanty
• LonCon3 – The whole Con, miscellanea therein and the final curtain thereof — Carabas
• Einar Leif Nielsen’s LonCon3 report (Icelandic)
• LonCon 3 Report — Sean McLachlan
• Loncon3: A Squire’s Report — Francesco Verso
• LonCon3 report at Boardgame Geek — mark Gerrits
• Fun and Games at LonCon3 — R.A. Smith
• Cheryl Morgan’s post on LonCon3: Day 0, day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, wrapup
• Mark Oshiro’s Facebook post on LonCon3
• LonCon3 panels and George R. R. Martin talk — Deborah Jay
• A Recapitulation of LonCon3 — Xueting Ni.
• Souvenirs de la #LonCon3 — by Lalex (French)
• My first Worldcon — Boktimmen
• So that was Worlcon — K. V. Johansen
• Een geest als eregast — Paul Evanby (in Dutch)
• Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Jim – Loncon 3
• LonCon roundup — Legionseagle
• A universe in self-discovery: LonCon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, 14-18 — Matthew Kilburn
• My favorite LonCon3 Moment — Scott Edelman.
• How LonCon3 compares to academic conferences – Jenny Walklate
• Adventures in visiting England and conventions, II, III, IV, V — Liz Bourke.
• LonCon3, A Retrospective — Andrea Phillips
• The three coolest things that happened to me at Worldcon — Nicholas Whyte
• London and LonCon — Abigail Nussbaum.
• LONCON3 | The Anjelican Universe
• My Day Out at LonCon3 | Me and My Books
• Summer Cons and All the Awesome! | Suzanne van Rooyen
• 6 Impossible Things: LonCon 3
• I Went To Loncon 3 On My Own, And Left It With Myself
• WorldCon: some thoughts | Writings from Otherworld
• Loncon 3 – The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) – Renegade Revolution
• Con Report: LonCon 3 (Worldcon 2014) – Over The Effing Rainbow
• LonCon3 Report ~ things mean a lot

Photos & Video

• Cosplay and other photos — Ira Nayman
• Photos from the Fan Village — File 770
• A Bouquet of Masquerade Photos – File 770
• Scenes from Saturday at LonCon3 — File 770
• LonCon3 at Pinterest
• LonCon3 by RaygunGoth
• the cosplay of loncon3: saturday & sunday – We are book punks.We are book punks.
• the cosplay of loncon3: friday – We are book punks.We are book punks.
• the t-shirts of loncon3 – We are book punks.We are book punks. – Featuring yours truly
• Video impression of LonCon3 – Saturday
• Video impression of LonCon3 – Friday

(Selected) Media coverage

• Galactic Suburbia LonCon3 podcast
• The 200th Coode Street podcast, with Jo Walton, Robert Silverberg and Kim Stanley Robinson
• In the Wake of the British Boom: The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention — Martin Petto in the LA Review of Books.
• In praise of Science Fiction Fandom — The Grauniad/
• World Science Fiction Convention 2014 beams into London — ibid
• World Science Fiction Convention 2014 – in pictures — The Guardian
• How the growing generation gap is changing the face of fandom — The Daily Dot
• Watch out London: the geeks are coming — Channel 4, a bit naff
• By contrast, The BBC’s coverage of the 1979 Brighton Worldcon.

Book recommendations from the con(s)

• 21 Of The Best British Sci-Fi Writers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of – Here are the top 21 sci-fi and fantasy authors you should be reading this year.
• African sf recommendations from Nine Worlds