Earls, Bill
Entry updated 17 June 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1942-2025) US author and prolific freelance journalist who served in the US Navy in the early 1960s; he began to publish work of genre interest with "Jump" as William Earls in Analog for October 1969 and also appeared in Galaxy and Asimov's, though not as Bill Earls until his last two sf magazine stories in 1979 and 1986. He attended the 1972 Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop and appeared as William Earls in the resulting anthology Clarion III (anth 1973) edited by Robin Scott Wilson. His one novel is The Gladiator (1981), an "if this goes on" extrapolation of increasing violence in Games and Sports in which the half-time entertainment at the US Super Bowl in the then Near Future of 1985 escalates from a grudge fight between two rival footballers to a battle to the death using such Weapons as daggers and maces, with 80,000 eager fans baying for blood. [DRL]
William James Earls
born USA: 24 May 1942
died Guilford, Connecticut: 21 February 2025
works
- The Gladiator (New York: Dell, 1981) [pb/uncredited]
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