Local Accuracy, Global Distortion: The Comparative Decomposition Error in Classifying the Fiction of Francisco M. Martinez

This paper introduces the comparative decomposition error, a critical problem that occurs when an integrated literary architecture is divided into familiar genres, themes, or author comparisons and those partial descriptions are mistaken for a complete classification. Using the fiction and research of Francisco M. Martinez as its central case, the paper examines how comparisons with science fiction, gothic horror, cyberpunk, conspiracy fiction, prophecy fiction, theological fiction, artificial-intelligence fiction, and metafiction can remain locally accurate while producing global distortion. It argues that Mythotechnic Fiction and Meta-Mythic Delphic Fiction provide greater explanatory precision because they identify governing operations rather than isolated ingredients. Mythotechnic Fiction is defined through reciprocal transformation between myth and technology. Meta-Mythic Delphic Fiction is defined through recursive causality in which prediction, interpretation, belief, decision, and institutional action participate in producing lived reality. The paper also examines founder authority, structural genrehood, literary ancestry, influence, eclectic borrowing, personal poetics, portability, exclusion boundaries, and social recognition. It presents corpus-level causal chains, a six-dimension operation matrix, and diagnostic tests for evaluating whether the proposed genre terms explain the Martinez corpus more accurately than stacked conventional labels. The central conclusion is that comparisons remain useful as coordinates, but they should not replace analysis of the architecture governing the work.