Detta är förstås " Jag lägger mina blå gener på " av Orson Scott-kortet
The story takes place far in the future. Earth has become an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare. After fleeing Earth decades earlier, a contingent of humans returns to find a small band of beings, now not quite human, still fighting an enemy which has long since been annihilated. The title refers to the planet's surface, which has become a swirling mass of blue goo, a result of the biological agents acting and reacting one with another.
Karaktärerna i bunken namngavs efter presidenterna; Richard Nixon (Dixon), George Washington (Steiner) och Andrew Jackson (Wallichmksky)