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ALT Cover art by Matt Dixon features a robot with his back to the viewer standing on the beach near the water as it looks out onto the sea. Also in this issue: interviews with James Sallis and Michael Swanwick, article by Terry Franklin, and the results of the first round of our readers poll.

ALT Cover art by li moly features a large mecha in the distance framed by trees. A human looks at it from a path. Only the upper half of the mecha is visible. May be partially buried or leaning against raised ground. Some vegetation is on it, suggesting that it hasn't moved in a while.

ALT Cover art by Guy Warley features a futuristic cityscape in yellows and browns. A yellow sky features a small wingless craft flying towards it.

ALT Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

ALT Cover art by Ninja Jo features a robot with an inverted egg-shape head low to the chest against a dark reddish background with a bright yellow almost circular outline directly behind the robot. The title of the piece is "The Key" and there is a lighted keyhole pattern on the robot's chest. Bottom of image fades into darkness, so you can't see it's hands or lower body.

ALT Cover art is "Blue Ship" by Pascal Blanché. A blue standing t-shaped ship flies left-to-right along a giant bright-orange industrial facility with pipes and rails.

ALT Cover art is "Alone" by Matt Dixon. A lone bronze-colored robot looks out from the center of a dimly-lit maze of solid, but short, walls.

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ALT Cover art is "Jungleman II" by Arthur Haas. An astronaut in an orange and white suit with a helmet observes and alien landscape of fungus-like green, orange, and purple life. Balloon-like shapes float in the sky and a pink-winged lifeform appears to be caught by one of the purple plants.

ALT Our April 2025 issue (#223) contains: Fiction * "Through These Moments, Darkly" by Samantha Murray * "The Seed" by Sheryl Singerling * "Aegiopolis Testudo" by Gordon Li * "Still Water" by Zhang Ran * "Symbiotic" by Carolyn Zhao * "In My Country" by Thomas Ha * "An Even Greater Cold to Come" by Rich Larson Non-Fiction * "Climate Change and the Shifting Disease Landscape" by Victoria Brun * "Unreliable Characters: A Conversation with Ai Jiang" by Arley Sorg * "Unapologetically Strange: A Conversation with Natalia Theodoridou" by Arley Sorg * "Editor's Desk: Perhaps Light Gray?" by Neil Clarke Cover art is "Naï Naï's Arrival & Rituals" by Thomas Brissot. An older woman with a can is helped from a white hoovercraft, by a humanoid robot. The craft is parked next to a tree between two archways and sunlight comes down on the characters from the right.

ALT Cover art is "Joust" by Pascal Blanché. A yellow-green figure in green clothes whiles a metal visor while holding a spear and riding on a large green lizard. Lizard is camoflaged, has four eyes, some armor over its legs. The barren orange landscape is shot from above and in front of the lizard. Fiction "From Enceladus, with Love" by Ryan Cole "Pollen" by Anna Burdenko "Mindtrips" by Tlotlo Tsamaase "Those Uncaring Waves" by Yukimi Ogawa "Hook and Line" by Koji A. Dae "The Sound of the Star" by Ren Zeyu "Funerary Habits of Low Entropy Entities" by Damián Neri Non-Fiction "For Sustainable Space Colonies, Let There Be Soil" by Gunnar De Winter "Falling for Characters: A Conversation with Lee Harris" by Arley Sorg "Permission to Experiment: An Interview with Julie Dillon" by Arley Sorg "Editor's Desk: The Best from 2024" by Neil Clarke