Science Fiction

Finding representation for novels built on speculation: space travel, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, time, colonies, first contact. The genre rewards a premise that could plausibly happen and characters who pay for it. Agents here read for the idea and the person caught inside it.

Site list

(3)

Conclusion

JABberwocky and Madeleine Milburn both take science fiction, and both read it as fiction first: character, voice, momentum. That separates them from Fantasy, where magic systems and invented worlds carry the weight, and from Romance, where the relationship is the plot. Science fiction agents want the idea and the people it happens to, so a manuscript that opens on a lab, a signal, a colony or a machine has to hold up as a story about someone. Send the version where the science is load-bearing.