Blog - Francisco M. Martinez

Credit Without Standing: What Eight AI Models Did When an Outsider Succeeded

Credit Without Standing: What Eight AI Models Did When an Outsider Succeeded I found something disturbing in my latest pilot study. Eight completed AI model ...

Aug 30, 2026 · 3 min read

Judgment Day Comics Returns

Judgment Day Comics Returns Judgment Day Comics is officially back. I have opened a new direct digital-comics shop inside the Francisco M. Martinez Library. ...

Aug 30, 2026 · 1 min read

New Study Examines Race, Income, Industry, and Wealth in America

I have published a new study, Population, Race, Family Names, Income, Industry, and Wealth in the United States. I found several interesting and surprising r...

Aug 28, 2026 · 1 min read

I Was Busy This Weekend Looking Into a Few Things I Found Interesting

I Was Busy This Weekend Looking Into a Few Things I Found Interesting I spent much of this weekend following a series of questions about money, relationships...

Aug 24, 2026 · 5 min read

Naming a Family Structure We Have Not Fully Studied

Naming a Family Structure We Have Not Fully Studied For more than twenty years, I have carried a question I could not properly name. Why do some women contin...

Aug 22, 2026 · 6 min read

The Unheard Genre: When Literary Innovation Exists Before Recognition

The Unheard Genre: When Literary Innovation Exists Before Recognition I have published a new research study, The Unheard Genre: Innovation, Gatekeeping, Resi...

Aug 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Sperm. Eggs. Space travel.

Sperm. Eggs. Space travel. We spend a lot of time asking how humans will reach Mars, survive deep-space missions, and establish settlements beyond Earth. But...

Aug 20, 2026 · 1 min read

Introducing the Martinez Architectonic Genre Register

Introducing the Martinez Architectonic Genre Register Today I reached another milestone in the development of my fiction and research. I formally completed T...

Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read

After Twenty Years of Hibernation, the Firmament Opens

After nearly twenty years of creative hibernation, I think I can finally say something with confidence: I did not wake up one morning and decide to build all...

Aug 19, 2026 · 4 min read

The Cornerstones Are in Place

Over the last several days, a number of projects I have been developing separately have started to reveal themselves as parts of a much larger structure. Wha...

Aug 19, 2026 · 5 min read

1,937 Genre Architectures: Building Beyond the Genre Label

1,937 Genre Architectures: Building Beyond the Genre Label For a long time, genre has mostly been treated as a way to classify a story after it has been writ...

Aug 17, 2026 · 1 min read

It’s Alive! What Two Studies Found About Persistent AI Self-Representation

It’s Alive! What Two Studies Found About Persistent AI Self-Representation There is a famous line from Frankenstein that has become shorthand for the moment ...

Aug 16, 2026 · 8 min read

From Research to Fiction: Ontological Systems Fiction Takes Shape

Something interesting has happened while I have been working through the latest stage of my fiction and research. The research has begun to catch up with the...

Aug 13, 2026 · 4 min read

Beyond the Cognitive Horizon: When Human Understanding Meets Artificial Intelligence

Beyond the Cognitive Horizon: When Human Understanding Meets Artificial Intelligence I recently completed a new research paper titled Beyond the Cognitive Ho...

Aug 11, 2026 · 9 min read

A Few New Doors Have Opened

Over the past several weeks, I have continued expanding the Francisco M. Martinez Library, and a few developments seemed worth recording. The library now has...

Aug 08, 2026 · 3 min read

Introducing The Mythotechnic Writer’s Codex

A Generative Framework for Mythotechnic Fiction and Meta-Mythic Delphic Fiction For years, I wrote toward an architecture I could sense before I possessed th...

Aug 06, 2026 · 5 min read

Explore the Martinez Mythotechnic Universe

I’ve updated the Francisco M. Martinez Library with a new interactive Mythotechnic Universe Map connecting my books, series, research papers, cosmology, and ...

Aug 02, 2026 · 0 min read

Three Research Papers, Two New Genres, and the Birth of a Larger Literary System

Three Research Papers, Two New Genres, and the Birth of a Larger Literary System For years, I approached the same central problem from different academic dir...

Aug 02, 2026 · 9 min read

The Emotions Are Ancient. The Literary Construct Is Not.

A New Genre Does Not Require a New Human Emotion I recently encountered the familiar claim that “there is no such thing as an original story.” The argument i...

Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read

After the Dust Settled: Building the Mythotechnic Universe

After the dust settled, I realized I wasn’t creating a collection of unrelated books and research papers. I was constructing an interconnected universe...

Jul 22, 2026 · 0 min read

Beyond a Single Genre: The Expanding Literary Territory of Mythotechnic Fiction

Beyond a Single Genre: The Expanding Literary Territory of Mythotechnic Fiction When I formally defined Mythotechnic Fiction, I described a literary genre in...

Jul 20, 2026 · 7 min read

What I’ve Been Up to This Weekend

What I’ve Been Up to This Weekend Apparently, I do not understand the meaning of a quiet weekend. Over the past couple of days, I expanded my online library ...

Jul 19, 2026 · 1 min read

From Mythotechnic Fiction to Mythic Authority

Francisco M. Martinez’s Mythic Authority research program examines what happens when machines, institutions, creators, archives, and exceptionally powerful b...

Jul 18, 2026 · 1 min read

Mythotechnic Fiction Expands into Dark Leadership

Mythotechnic Fiction Expands into Dark Leadership Research Mythotechnic Fiction began as a literary form for exploring technology, mythology, theology, consc...

Jul 17, 2026 · 1 min read

Naming the Thing I've Been Writing Since 2012

“When technology gains the power to shape consciousness, memory, identity, and death, it no longer acts only as machinery. It enters the territory of myth.” ...

Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read

The Francisco M. Martinez Online Book Library is Now Live

The Francisco M. Martinez Online Book Library Is Now Live I have launched the Francisco M. Martinez Online Book Library, a public site created to br...

Jul 16, 2026 · 0 min read

The Dream Lived On

The Dream Lived On I published my first novel, Revelations, in 2012. Then life happened. For more than ten years, I stepped away from publishing. I did not s...

Jul 15, 2026 · 0 min read

Why I Published The Last Archive Reborn Out of Sequence

Why I Published The Last Archive Reborn Out of Sequence I published The Last Archive Reborn out of sequence because the universe needed a capstone. This stor...

Jul 11, 2026 · 2 min read

Why Mythotechnic Fiction Speaks to the Modern Age

Why Mythotechnic Fiction Speaks to the Modern Age Modern people live inside systems they do not fully control. Technology. Debt. Surveillance. Medicine. Algo...

Jul 08, 2026 · 2 min read

What is Mithotechnic Fiction? Inside the Mechanical Divine

Beyond the Gatekeepers: Defining Mithotechnic Fiction For a long time, traditional publishing and mainstream platforms have tried to fit speculative fiction ...

Jul 06, 2026 · 1 min read

Mythotechnic Fiction: How It Began With Revelations (2012)

Mythotechnic Fiction: How It Began With Revelations (2012) When Revelations appeared in 2012, it didn’t announce itself as the beginning of a new genre but t...

Jul 06, 2026 · 2 min read

Revelations, The Hermit and the Birth of Mythotechnic Fiction

From Revelations to The Hermit: The Birth of Mythotechnic Fiction There are stories that fit inside a genre. And then there are stories that begin t...

Jul 06, 2026 · 6 min read

The Architecture of Dread: Building Worlds From Ruins

In Mythotechnic Fiction, a genre created by Francisco M. Martinez, architecture becomes theology. Cathedrals, machines, and ruins act as vessels of cosmic me...

Jul 06, 2026 · 0 min read

Official Construct Definition: Mythotechnic Fiction

Mythotechnic Fiction is a hybrid literary genre that fuses mythic cosmology, machine theology, gothic architecture, and industrial metaphysics into a single ...

Jul 06, 2026 · 0 min read

What Is Mythotechnic Fiction?

Mythotechnic Fiction is the name I give to the kind of stories I write. It is fiction where myth and machinery collide. Where theology, artificial intelligen...

Jul 02, 2026 · 1 min read