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.

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  1. “Joelle” by Poul Anderson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fall 1977.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson