Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Blue Lard" in English language version.
It begins in Russia, in 2068, when scientists have set about cloning the country's great past writers in a clandestine Siberian lab. The novels, stories and poems these clones produce are of little importance; the scientists' true quarry is the blue lard that forms on the clones' bodies as they perform the "script process."
Their crazed output turns out to be a mere by-product of the scientists' true purpose: to produce the "blue lard" used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.