The site selection vote at Westercon 63 chose the Seattle bid to host Westercon 65 in 2012. Bobbie DuFault will be the convention chair, and Susan Robinson will be the treasurer, according to the bid filing papers.
The convention theme is “A Step Out of Time”. Many traditions speak of an end of time as we know it, but we present it as an end of life as we know it and the dawn of a new age, a phase of destruction and creation, death and rebirth. All timelines and alternate histories will overlap, converge, and merge in the moment of change, to become something new in the new era. Fantasy, science fiction, steampunk and cyberpunk, classical and cutting edge, slipstream and mainstream, all will appear and overlap in the days of ConClusion. It has been foretold (in Shadowrun, Dark Angel, The 4400, and many other works) that when the time of change comes, Seattle will be at the center of the change.