Glasgow Wins 2024 Site Selection

Glasgow has won the vote to host the 2024 Worldcon, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention. The site in Scotland has previously hosted Worldcons in 1995 and 2005. Chicon 8 reports that 809 ballots were cast in the election, with 776 in favour of Glasgow. There were no other official bids. For the detailed results, see the Worldcon 2024 Site Selection Report from the Site Selection administrator.

Glasgow’s Guests of Honor will be artist Chris Baker (Fangorn), fans Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer, authors Ken MacLeod and Nnedi Okorafor, and editor, author, and artist Terri Windling. The convention will be chaired by Professor Esther MacCallum-Stewart.

The Glasgow website is here.