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 symbolic system. It blends the sacred and the mechanical, the cosmic and the ruinous, creating worlds where technology behaves like myth, architecture functions as scripture, and the post‑apocalyptic landscape becomes a metaphysical arena. Mythotechnic Fiction is defined by its four core modes: techno‑theological gothic, metaphysical industrialism, architectural cosmic sci‑fi, and metaphysical post‑apocalypse. Together, these elements form a genre concerned not merely with the end of civilization, but with the collapse and reconstruction of meaning itself.

A fusion of myth, machinery, theology, architecture, and cosmic dread...a metaphysical genre of post‑apocalyptic meaning.

Francisco M. Martinez