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