Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

With Seattle Worldcon 2025 coming up, let’s take a look back at a couple of films that attendees at Seattle’s first Worldcon, way back in 1961, might have seen at their local theaters and drive-ins. Grab some popcorn and settle back for a pair of surprisingly good low budget movies from the king of B films, Roger Corman.

Coffee culture is ubiquitous in Seattle, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that you can find a coffee shop on almost every corner. Home to Starbucks, Tully’s, Seattle’s Best Coffee, and a wide range of smaller local roasters and coffee shops, locals are passionate and opinionated about their coffee.

Seattle’s first Worldcon was held on the cusp of humanity’s self-destruction. We dodged the nuclear bullet in 1962, but the atomic genie is restless in the bottle. And with war on Russia’s doorstep edging the cork ever further toward the lip, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz, hailed as the best SF novel of 1961, remains today as compelling and relevant as ever…

Seattle has a Troll under one of its bridges, and it’s a must-see on any trip to Seattle. The funky Fremont Troll, in Seattle’s funky Fremont neighborhood, is a one-of-a-kind piece of public art.

As we ready our jets and look forward to blasting off for the Emerald City’s second Worldcon ever, it’s a great time to blast back to the past, to the time of Seattle’s first Worldcon: 1961. Because on April 12 of that year, one man slipped the surly bonds of Earth, and humanity was forever changed…

In the Northwest, we love our berries. You’ll frequently see pies, syrups, and all manner of desserts featuring not just strawberries and raspberries, but loganberries, marionberries, gooseberries, huckleberries, and others. This recipe for blackberry crisp can be made gluten free and vegan with simple substitutions. It’s a summertime favorite.

With 358 days until the start of Seattle Worldcon 2025, we are excited to announce the launch of our blog, Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow, with weekly features relating to the region and to era- specific speculative fiction. And more surprises to come!

Announcing the Best Poem Special Hugo Award and the Seattle Worldcon 2025 Community Fund, our congratulations to this year’s Hugo Award winners, volunteer opportunities, three creative contests to start planning for, and our thanks to Glasgow for a great Worldcon!

Seattle Worldcon 2025 is excited to announce the appointment of our poet laureate, Brandon O’Brien! For more about Brandon and the rapidly approaching Glasgow 2024, check out our updated newsletter – Dispatches from Yesterday’s Tomorrow.

We are now ready for pre-supporters to upgrade their memberships to attending memberships in the convention (WSFS membership + attending supplement) and complete registration.

Due to a last-minute change in our registration software, our ability to process registrations and upgrades to attending memberships for site selection voters and bid supporters has been delayed past our originally projected date.

My name is Kathy Bond, Chair of this Worldcon, and I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Seattle will have the honor of hosting you all for the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention.

More detailed instructions for site selection voting, a new restaurant has opened at the Seattle Convention Center, and a reminder of our Base 2 Space climb.

We’ll be at Pemmi-Con, this year’s NASFiC, how you can cast your site selection ballot, we have a team for the Base 2 Space Space Needle climb to raise money for cancer research, and we have a Spotify playlist of Seattle musicians.

We are unopposed on the site selection ballot! And the Summit expansion building is open! Some Space Needle history, we’re looking for volunteers, we’re planning for Chengdu, and we were at Boskone and Norwescon and will be at Pemmicon, Chengdu, Orycon, and Loscon.

We’ll be at Norwescon, Westercon, and Pemmi-Con over the coming months.

Triple Shot members can fill out a survey to suggest guests of honor.

Our report from tabling at Chicon, Triple Shot members can suggest guests of honor, we’ve revamped our website, and a recipe for our very popular apple crisp.

A Seattle-themed Spotify playlist to keep you entertained while in line at Chicon!

We’ll be at Chicon, and we could use help at the bid table.

We’ll be at Westercon and Chicon and could use help at the tables, our July volunteer meeting is coming up, we need more volunteers, and a look at what summers in the Seattle area are like.

We’ll be at Balticon and could use some help at the bid table.

Our next volunteer meeting is in May, we’ll be at Marcon and Balticon, our Norwescon bid party was a success, and how you can contribute content for this newsletter.

Our next meeting in April, we’ll be at Norwescon and could use help tabling, and how you can contribute content for this newsletter.

A successful party at Discon, volunteer meetings start in March, we’ll be at Norwescon, Balticon, and Chicon, and we need volunteers!

Ramping up the bid activities, a peek at our amazing location, our bid dates, we’ll be at Discon, and we need volunteers!