Title

The title takes after Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Some sites about Ray Bradbury:
http://www.raybradbury.com/ Official Harper-Collins site.
http://www.spaceagecity.com/bradbury/ Ray Bradbury Online. Information about the author and his works.

The book is available from Amazon at .
Here's also the Harper-Collins page about the book, and the
Ray Bradbury Online page.

The book was made into a movie in 1983. Here is the IMDB entry.

The story follows a classic theme. A circus arrives in a small town. The ringmaster has the power to make dreams come true, but only at a terrible price, which you don't find out until it's too late. It's a version of the Faust myth. I found a good discussion of the Faust myth on this page, and there is a good list of Faust links here. The "bargain with the devil" theme is a common one in literature in general and science fiction in particular.

Another source for the title is the tagline from the movie 2010: "What's going to happen?" "Something wonderful." Funny, because when a society encounters a bigger, more powerful, more economically-developed society, the results are usually less than wonderful.

And so I came to tell my story.
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