A cynical sociopath from the future goes on a crime spree (sometimes with random blood, sometimes with trite tripping on his future drugs) across 20th-century North America.
—Michael Main
“I said, have you got something going,” she repeated, still with the accent—the accent of my own time.

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  1. “The Pure Product” by John Kessel, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1986.
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  2. “Das reine Produkt” [The pure product] by John Kessel, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazin 27 May 1987.
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  3. “Il prodotto puro” [The pure product] by John Kessel, Urania #1541, December 2008.
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  4. “O produto puro” [The pure product] by John Kessel, in As melhores histórias de viagem no tempo: Os contos dos autores mais consagrados da ficção científica, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Harry Turtledove (Editora Jangada, April 2017).
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  1. Series—Uchronia[/url lists “The Pure Product” as one of Kessel’s Moment Universe Stories, but we don’t see any connection.