"Hidden Talent"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1957
ID: 439
Publication history:
- 1957: Science Fantasy October 1957 (#25), Magazine
- 1957: Worlds of If April 1957, Magazine
- 1973: Earth's Other Shadow, Signet Mass market paperback, 207 pp.
- 1975: Earth's Other Shadow, Signet Mass market paperback
- 1977: Earth's Other Shadow, Millington Hard cover book
- 1978: Earth's Other Shadow, Panther Mass market paperback, 222 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Rygor Davison can get by on Earth just fine. Society there is sophisticated and tolerant enough that he can even use his telekinetic power in public. But as the final stage of his Esper Guild training, he must learn how not to use his ability. So he is sent to Mondarran IV, a simple agrarian planet where a display of psychic talent can get a person burned at the stake as a witch.