Canadian Eric Stranathan is one of the few people in the world who can merge his mind with
computer hardware, taking him to mental vistas beyond that of mere humans. At a conference to
explore the possibilities of the technology, he meets the beautiful American Joelle who
shares his ability. The two fall deeply in love, but because of security restrictions, it’s
fifteen months before she can show him the capabilities of her mind-machine connection.
The
time-travel connection is slight in this long story, but it is relevant to Joelle. As I read
though, I wondered whether the story could have been much more had the time-travel element
been taken more to heart.
He swept out of the cell, through space and through time, at light-speed across unseen
prairies, into the storms that raged down a great particle accelerator.