Bill Garson (1917– ) was an American science fiction writer mainly active in the mid-twentieth century. As far as can be seen, public information about him is quite limited: details of his life, his educational background, and the full range of his work lack systematic records, and readers can learn about him mostly through scattered bibliographic information. One representative work is known, Acid Bath, though the records available here make it hard to determine its genre or plot. Judging by where he published, his stories appeared mostly in the pulp magazines of the period, which were aimed at a mass readership and featured short, fast-paced fiction often involving scientific speculation and adventure. Garson is not widely known among science fiction readers today, but as a member of that mid-century pulp science fiction writing community, his work offers a concrete sample for observing the ecology of American science fiction magazines in that era.
