I am having trouble finding good sci fi literary agents online. Anyone have any good recommendations?

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As a matter of course I would not approach agents who advertise on the internet. Good agents don't need to advertise. Having said that many 'good agents' won't touch Sci-Fi. Try the Artists' and Writers' Yearbook or the Writer's Market. Both these have lists of agents and the genres in which they specialise.

You will find that most agencies have moved into the computer age and do have web pages. Those who do not use the internet in today's world could be left in the dust. Even the prestigious Wm Morris Agency has its (tactfully done) web pages now. Since both good and bad agents can put up a web page, it is up to the author seeking an agent to delve into the agency in question to find out if they are legitimate, but the various literary associations (like the AAR or the LAA in Australia) can ease your mind in these matters. Following are some sources that list literary agents. You will have to check each agency as to whether they handle Sci-Fi. (Many do; some don't.) I recommend you check each agent before you query them to be sure they seem legitimate. For instance, check the list of authors and novels they have handled recently and check that they are actual books in print. http://www.aaronline.org/ http://www.writers.net/agents.html http://www.iilaa.com/ Other places to check that will give you a head's-up on the criminals pretending to be agents are SFWA, "Writers’ Beware", and "Predators & Editors". I hope that was helpful.

I had an SF novel published last year (Time for Patriots, 203 pages hardcover). The agent I found on line hooked me up with a publisher that had never handled SF before, and they mishandled an opportunity for the book to be considered for an award. The agent also wasted a lot of time sending the book around to publishers that wouldn't consider SF even if it were co-authored by Verne, Bradbury, Asimov and King. Your best shot would be to go to the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) website, and look over the list of agents listed there. Wish I had done that.

I dont know of any, but if you want, you could go to the website on my sources box and start publishing chapters of it on there to catch an agents attention?