Sideshow is a novel by Mike Resnick published in 1982.
Sideshow is a novel in which a carnival owner blackmails a company into performing on the interstellar circuit.[1]
Greg Costikyan reviewed Sideshow in Ares Magazine #14 and commented that "The intrusion of a human scale into a genre whose major appeal is its galactic scale is a tricky task to pull off, and few have done it successfully. Mike Resnick is one such writer."[1]