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.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Kessel
  3. “Das reine Produkt” by John Kessel, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazin 27 May 1987.
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Kessel
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Joachim Pente
  5. “Il prodotto puro” by John Kessel, Urania #1541, December 2008.
  6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Kessel
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  7. “O produto puro” 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).
  8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Kessel
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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.