Novelette
The Pure Product
- by John Kessel
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1986
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.