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Seattle Worldcon 2025!

Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone

August 13–17, 2025

Seattle Worldcon is done!

We’re done! Our Discord server accessed through the convention portal will go to read-only about two weeks after the end of con. Session replays are available through Guidebook; click “Replayable” to produce a list of sessions with replay videos available or still waiting to be added. You can download your own copies of our souvenir program book and pocket program, view the final convention schedule, and find anything else you’re looking for about the convention on the Worldcon At a Glance page! Thank you for coming to Seattle Worldcon 2025!

Our five retrofuturistic cartoon characters in a bright green Jetsons-style flying car.
Five people dressed in retrofuturistic clothing, of varied apparent races, genders, and ages. One is in a hover chair, and one is using a jetpack.

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.

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

Seattle Worldcon Panels Available for Replay—More on the Way

About 120 of the 193 Seattle Worldcon panels and events that were recorded have already been posted; look for replays of the remaining events to be posted over the coming weeks as volunteer hours allow.

Newsletter August 2025: Have a Great Convention!

It’s our last newsletter before con! Join the passport scavenger hunt; see our list of evening parties; meet our guests of honor; download our program book, pocket program, and restaurant guide; come to the art show reception; pay attention to your health; see our dance lineup; pre-con registration demographics; learn about the daily ’zine; badge replacement; limited participation event signups are open; Guidebook is up to date; The Head!!! That Wouldn’t Die!; and thanks for reading!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Reading!

It has been a pleasure to bring you Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow, the official blog of Seattle Worldcon 2025. Since the blog relaunched under this name on August 20, 2024, our all-volunteer staff of writers, editors, graphic artists, and web designers has brought you a steady stream of content, striving to enlighten minds, stimulate thoughts ... Read more

Newsletter August 2025: ‘How To’ Information Included!

Our convention portal is open, with access to our Discord, virtual panels, panel and workshop signups, and more; our restaurant guide is posted; our programming just keeps expanding; ribbon collecting; calling for masquerade volunteers; childcare time adjustments; what you’ll find in our freebies lounge; and more!

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