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Seattle Worldcon 2025!

Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone

August 13–17, 2025

Our Guests of Honor

Martha Wells, a white woman with shoulder-length wavy dark blonde hair and waring a dark top, looks at the camera with a slight smile.

Martha Wells

Donato Giancola, a man with short-cut dark hair and goatee, wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans, sitting in the midst of an artist's studio, with finished and in-progress paintings and paint supplies around him.

Donato Giancola

Bridget Landry, a white woman with blonde medium-length hair, looking directly at the camera.

Bridget Landry

Alexander James Adams, a white man with long brown and grey hair in a ponytail, wearing a black sleeveless shirt and cowboy hat, plays a guitar and sings into a microphone.

Alexander James Adams

Our Poet Laureate

Brandon O'Brien, a black man with short hair and goatee, wearing glasses, with a slight sly grin on his face.

Brandon O’Brien

Our Hosts

K Tempest Bradford, a Black woman with curly black hair, wearing glasses, black lipstick, and a red and orange top, smiles at the camera.

K. Tempest Bradford

Nisi Shawl

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!

Seattle Worldcon 2025 Hugo Award Finalists
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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

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Local Flavor: Sushi and the Seattle Roll

April 30, 2025

Seattle’s easy access to quality fresh seafood and large Asian-American population have made sushi as common in the local food landscape as pizza and tacos.

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Con-Verse: Chatting with Holly Lyn Walrath

April 28, 2025

Hello, fellow travelers! I hope you’ve been having a wonderful time digging into the rich banquet of work on the finalist ballot of the Hugo Awards—including the best poem category finalists (but of course I hope you’re reading everything else, too)! Soon we will be tasked with casting our final ballots and determining which among … Read more

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Fantastic Fiction: Elric of Melniboné: Tortured Elf Emperor with a Cursed Sword

April 25, 2025

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?

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Around Seattle: T-Mobile Park

April 23, 2025

Seattle’s home for pro baseball is a very fun place, worth visiting whether or not the Mariners are in town.

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