author
George Noyes Miller
1845–1904
Best known for a bold late-19th-century speculative novel, this American writer explored gender roles and social reform through fiction. His work is now mainly remembered by readers of early science fiction and utopian literature.
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The strike of a sex : A novel.
by George Noyes Miller
About the author
George Noyes Miller was an American author born in Putney, Vermont, in 1845 and died in 1904. Reference works on speculative fiction identify him with The Strike of a Sex (1890), a novel that later appeared in Britain as After the Strike of a Sex; or, Zugassent's Discovery.
His writing is associated with early utopian and speculative fiction, and bibliographic sources connect that later edition with the Oneida Community and related perfectionist movements. That gives his work an unusual place at the crossroads of social thought, reform culture, and imaginative fiction.
Miller is not widely documented in major general-reference sources today, so many personal details are harder to confirm. Even so, his surviving publications have kept his name in circulation among historians of science fiction, collectors of rare books, and readers interested in forgotten experiments in social and feminist-themed fiction.