I read your post in "Discussions from Goodreads Authors/Readers" I totally agree with what you said about agents. My opinion: They are a complete waste of time. They are competent writers of polite rejections. I believe that they all have a Predilection, preexisting bias concerning specific genre (e.g. sci-fi) styles, subjects, and whatever else their limited cognition sits in judgement over when evaluating sub's?