Seattle in 2025 (original) (raw)
Welcome to
Seattle Worldcon 2025!
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
August 13–17, 2025
Our Guests of Honor
Our Poet Laureate
Our Hosts
The 83rd World Science Fiction Convention
Held in downtown Seattle, Washington, August 13–17, 2025. Bringing Worldcon back to Seattle for the first time since 1961!
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Venue
The Seattle Convention Center’s new Summit expansion in the heart of downtown Seattle, surrounded by amazing views of the city, mountains, and water.
Program
Hundreds of hours of panel programming, presentations, workshops, events, table talks, autograph signings, kids programming, and more. Now soliciting panelists!
The Hugo Awards
Science fiction’s most prestigious award, administered and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention—this means you!
Volunteer
A Worldcon is run entirely by unpaid, volunteer staff. You too can join this community of makers, doers, and shapers, for a few hours during the con, or throughout the planning process.
Recent Updates
Fantastic Fiction: French SF in Translation in F&SF (1961)
The early years of the 1960s brought a number of French science fiction stories into English, thanks in a big way to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This kicked off decades of French science fiction in English, including several Pierre Boulle novels (like Planet of the Apes), that in turn inspired major films, introducing American readers to a more expansive view of SF.
Fantastic Fiction: The Amazing and Fantastic Cele Goldsmith
By the 1950s, Amazing Stories and its sister magazine Fantastic were deep in the doldrums. But all that changed when a young Vassar graduate named Cele Goldsmith found herself at the helm of both magazines and turned their fortunes around. In only seven years, she discovered many new writers who went on to great careers, helped to revive the all-but dead Sword and Sorcery genre, and won a Hugo, too.
Local Flavor: Fisher Fair Scones
Ah, the lure of freshly-baked refined white flour, slathered with butter and raspberry jam. If it’s fall in the Northwest, it’s time for the Washington State Fair, and buying Fisher Fair Scones by the dozen.
