FYRE & REIGN asked:
The story came out in Analog or Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine maybe in the 1980’s and involved testing centers established by these aliens that faster-than-light travel. They would test all human children and if the kids were able to teleport then they’d take the children. Humans resisted at first but the aliens were brutal. I recall they killed everyone in Wichita, Kansas to make an example of what happens to anyone that resists them. So there were testing centers all over the world and human children were tested, a small percentage were abducted, then one child teleported back to Earth after being abducted but the aliens took her back to their planet. It enraged the humans who decided that no child goes to the alien planet twice. They posted solders at every testing center.
The story came out in Analog or Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine maybe in the 1980’s and involved testing centers established by these aliens that faster-than-light travel. They would test all human children and if the kids were able to teleport then they’d take the children. Humans resisted at first but the aliens were brutal. I recall they killed everyone in Wichita, Kansas to make an example of what happens to anyone that resists them. So there were testing centers all over the world and human children were tested, a small percentage were abducted, then one child teleported back to Earth after being abducted but the aliens took her back to their planet. It enraged the humans who decided that no child goes to the alien planet twice. They posted solders at every testing center.
Does any of this ring a bell with anyone?
Carmen