City Of Baraboo

Description for CITY OF BARABOO by Barry B Longyear:

CARGO:  ONE CIRCUS DESTINATION:  THE STARS...

Through shakedowns, breakdowns, catastrophes and cataclysms, the circus had never failed to coax a chuckle out of a world badly in need of a laugh.  But it was getting hard to turn a buck with O'Hara's Greater Shows, and in 2142 it was the last stop for the bigtop.  Or so said the corporate consensus.

But in John J O'hara's opinion, even if a flea-bitten excuse for an Earth had run out of room for the circus, there were plenty of other planets where an appreciative audience would be willing to pay for a to-rate, razzle-dazzle show!