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The Pure Product

by John Kessel

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.
DEBUT
“The Pure Product,” in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1986.
VARIANTS
4 English variants
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Time Travel Methods Real-World Tags
  • Francis Bacon: briefly
  • JFK: Briefly: “‘I was there for the Kennedy assassination,’ I said, ‘but I had nothing to do with it.’”
  • Watergate: Briefly: “The last time I had anything to do, even peripherally, with anyone famous was when I changed the direction of the tape over the lock in the Watergate so Frank Wills would see it.”
Groupings
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Series—<a href='http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uchronia.net%2Flabel%2Fkessmoment.html'>Uchronia[/urlx lists “The Pure Product” as one of Kessel’s </a><a href='tag-3885'>Moment Universe Stories</a>, but we don’t see any connection.