 The remainder of the story follows Shorn as he infiltrates Telek society and persuades a Telek to give him telekinetic powers.In the final scene, Shorn brings 265 normal humans disguised as Teleks to the first annual Telek convention, where he tricks the assembled Teleks into giving the humans telekinetic powers.Since its first publication in the January 1952 issue of Astounding, "Telek" has been reprinted a number of times, in "Eight Fantasms and Magics" (1969), "Great Short Novels of Science Fiction" (1970), "When The Five Moons Rise" (1992), and "The World-Thinker and Other Stories" (2005).