Message From the Chair
The Seattle Worldcon 2025 extends our deepest apologies for multiple failure points which occurred during this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony.
Seattle Worldcon 2025
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
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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…
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…
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!
Fantastic Fiction: Washingtonian Influences in Frank Herbert’s Duniverse
Authors write what they know, and Frank Herbert was a voracious reader and lifelong learner, so naturally many of the things he explored found their way into his works. If one looks closely at the Duniverse, as seen in Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, there’s plenty of Washingtonian influences to be found in the Known Universe.
Around Seattle: Eastside Trains
A railfan's paradise with the largest selection of model trains west of the Mississippi
Con-Verse: The Volta: Embracing Verse At Worldcon, and In The Everyday
I am grateful that you have allowed me to share this moment with you all—this historic moment in genre fandom overall—as the first poet laureate in the history of the World Science Fiction Convention.
The World Is Everything: Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
Published in 1962, Hothouse by Brian Aldiss has elicited some pretty strong opinions in its time. Love it or hate it, the book presents a fascinating (although highly improbable) future Earth in which humanity is a trivial lifeform among many (and certainly less interesting than most) and where everything is food!
Local Flavor: Pike Place Market
When you want to get out of the convention center and find a reasonably priced meal, your best bet is the Pike Place Market.