When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

In this special Covid-19 edition of my podcast, I revisit my end-of-the-world short story When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, originally published in Baens Universe in 2005. Hundreds of people have emailed and tweeted me about this story this week, so I thought it was long overdue that I revisited it (I last read it into my podcast in 2006).

Sysadmins is a story about civic duty at the end of the world, about the network admins who decide to keep the internet running even as the apocalypse...