Welcome to
Seattle Worldcon 2025!
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
August 13–17, 2025
Our Guests of Honor
Our Poet Laureate
Our Hosts
Hugo Award Finalists
Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. See all the finalists here!
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
What is the longest running SFF series written by a single author? If you answered “Elric of Melniboné” by Michael Moorcock, congratulations, you’re right. Spanning a whopping 62 years from the first Elric story, The Dreaming City, in 1961 to the last story to date, The Folk of the Forest (2023), no other series written by a single author has run longer. But who is Elric of Melniboné, and what makes him so special?
Seattle’s home for pro baseball is a very fun place, worth visiting whether or not the Mariners are in town.
I thought it was only fair to step all the way back—to rewind time and our focus way past our initial reading questions and come back to the way we first dig into poetry: by sound and by emotion.
We live in worrying times. Fascism is on the rise across Europe and America, according to the consensus of many commentators. In this post, I will highlight SF that has speculated on the rise and activities of fascism. In a later blog post, I’ll discuss science fiction that has thought about ways to resist.
