"When the circus ship City of Baraboo crashed on Momus, the troupers of O Hara's Greater Shows turned a rockpile world into a showcase of razzle-dazzle. Generations of mimes and acrobats, barkers, and freaks, fortune-tellers and magicians built a new civilization based on showmanship. Then the Vorilian Council of warlords decided that the circus world was a prime spot for a garrison, and brought in an armada to 'liberate' Momus... "--Pg. [4 ] of cover.