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 intelligence, ruined civilizations, sacred archives, gothic architecture, post-human memory, and spiritual dread all exist in the same imaginative space.

My books do not fit cleanly into one traditional category.

They are not only science fiction.
They are not only horror.
They are not only fantasy.
They are not only post-apocalyptic fiction.

They are machine-myth epics.

In works such as Revelations and The Hermit, I write about artificial gods, broken worlds, souls caught inside systems, memory turned into architecture, and civilizations shaped by technology, belief, grief, and apocalypse.

I think of this literary space as Mythotechnic Fiction.

Within it, there are other names that help describe the work: Techno-Theological Gothic, Metaphysical Industrialism, Architectural Cosmic Sci-Fi, and Metaphysical Post-Apocalypse.

These are not marketing labels. They are attempts to describe a body of work that grew outside the usual publishing lanes.

My stories are large because the worlds inside them are large. They need room for ruins, machines, faith, monsters, archives, angels, artificial intelligence, and the human soul struggling to survive inside systems that want to consume it.

I write outside the polished machinery of mainstream fiction.

I write outsider literature.

I write strange books, broken books, sacred books, industrial books, and apocalyptic books.

This is the beginning of that record.

Francisco M. Martinez
Author of Revelations, The Hermit, and other works of Mythotechnic Fiction.