Blue Lard

Year 2048. Somewhere in a classified concrete laboratory out in the boundless expanses of "Eastern Siberia," a group of scientists in Russia is receiving "blue salo" for the first time—a unique substance whose entropy is always zero, and whose temperature is always constant and equal to the donor’s body temperature. And the donors are clones of famous writers: Dostoevsky-2, Tolstoy-4, Chekhov-3, Platonov-3, Nabokov-7, Pasternak-1, Akhmatova-2. Under the careful supervision of biologists, they create texts in inhuman torment, then fall into storage-like hibernation, and their bodies begin producing "blue salo." A lab employee, Boris Gloger, describes the entire process in letters to his Chinese lover. He also sends him the texts of the cloned authors.

Then the story moves to Siberian sectarians, and finally shifts to an alternative 1954, where Europe is divided between Hitler, who loves Stalin’s daughter, and Stalin, who is in love with Count Khrushchev. And with each page, the degree of absurdity keeps rising.