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 (and sometimes tastebuds!), kindle excitement to attend the Seattle Worldcon, and hopefully provide some smiles. It has been a lot of columns—for most of this calendar year, we published three columns per week!

On alternating Wednesdays, you enjoyed a total of 25 installments of our Local Flavor column, which addressed local food traditions and food history of the Pacific Northwest, and 24 installments of Around Seattle, in which Fifi Ding and Jason Sacks introduced you to a curated selection of tourist attractions in the Greater Seattle area (plus that week when the editor-in-chief took you on a visit to Tacoma!). Through their articles, you’ve visited parks, toy shops, museums, a troll, and other delightful places, all with the purpose of helping you learn more about Seattle before you get here, as well as hopefully providing you with some ideas for things to do and explore when you need to decompress.

Every Friday, we brought you a Fantastic Fiction column, 49 in all from 15 great fan writers discussing SFF narratives and notable figures centered around the 1961–1962 classic science fiction era, inspiring conversation about how we can live up to our Seattle Worldcon 2025 theme: “Building Yesterday’s Future—For Everyone.” Through their articles, we’ve taken a look at authors from the era who set trends in SFF, who were published originally in languages other than English, who became literary legends, and more.

On Mondays, starting in January this year, the Seattle Worldcon poet laureate, Brandon O’Brien, shared a total of 18 installments of the Con-Verse column, which not only educated you about speculative poetry but also taught you new ways to appreciate it. We hope Brandon inspired you to put your own pen to this form of SFF, as well as make your selection for the 2025 Special Hugo Award for Best Poem!

Volunteering is an act of love for this community, and none of this would have been possible without much work behind the scenes, notably from website and social media editor Michael Hanscom; editor emeritus David Hogg; and copyeditors Emily Teng, C. N. Wolf, and Ella Kliger; as well as the invaluable assistance of Janice L. Newman wrangling writers from the outstanding team at Galactic Journey, without whom our Fantastic Fiction column would have been far less stellar.

We cannot thank enough all of our YT&T writers, editors, and other staff for their volunteerism!

It’s time to move from our blog space into the Worldcon arena, where in just one week we hope to continue the conversations started here. On behalf of all our blog contributors, we wish you a great con experience!

Sincerely,