Francisco M. Martinez Author

The Black Road Saga is my experimental graphic novella line within The Hermit Universe. These shorter illustrated stories focus on legendary Hermits, warrior monks, and martyrs who lived during the Dark Times long before the main Hermit novels. Each volume is designed as a fast, visual, self-contained adventure that expands the mythology of the larger universe.

Francisco M. Martinez

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THE BLACK ROAD SAGA

The Black Road Saga is a series of illustrated short stories and graphic novellas set within The Hermit Universe.

Taking place during the Dark Times, centuries before the rise of Elias and the events of the main Hermit novels, these stories follow the legendary Hermits, saints, martyrs, warrior monks, wanderers, and forgotten heroes who resisted the growing power of the Red Queen.

Each volume focuses on a different figure from Hermit history, telling self-contained tales of sacrifice, survival, memory, and faith amid a world where names are erased, histories are rewritten, and entire civilizations disappear beneath the machinery of empire.

Valerian the Scourged : The Black Road Saga: Book One Valerian the Scourged : The Black Road Saga: Book One

Cervix Kiss: The Magician of the Garbage Planet
A Hermit Universe Chronicle

Collin Lazarus bought the machine that replaced him.

After losing his wife, his name, and his place in the world, he is exiled to the Garbage Planet, where discarded bodies, broken machines, ruined memories, and obsolete gods are left to rot.

But the Garbage Planet is not a landfill.

It is the universe’s hidden repair layer.

Now reborn as Kael, he must become something horrifying and sacred; not a hero, not a wizard, but a repair organism.

A broken man grafting the universe into his flesh.

Replacement deletes. Repair remembers. Trash is unfinished.

Cervix Kiss Cervix Kiss The Magician of the Garbage Planet A Hermit Universe Chronicle

He bought the machine that replaced him.

Now he repairs the universe that threw him away.

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Before The Hermit, there were dreams.

Around the early rise of AI image rendering in 2022, I started feeding old sketches, recurring dreams, alien figures, corrupted angels, machine visions, and strange memories into unstable early AI art systems.

The results were eerie, surreal, and sometimes disturbing.

Now those images return as The Hermit: Dream Archive, Book One: Before Awareness.

A visual archive of Clear Field and Mirror Field glimpses into other worlds.

Coming soon in paperback and Kindle.

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The Hermit Dream Archive
Book One
by Francisco M. Martinez

The Hermit: Dream Archive, Book One: Before Awareness The Hermit: Dream Archive, Book One: Before Awareness

The Hermit Dream Archive
Book One
by Francisco M. Martinez

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Before The Hermit became novels, atlases, machines, angels, aliens, and the Clear Field, there were dreams, strange experiences, and images I could never fully explain.

Not proof.
Not doctrine.
An archive.

Before the mythology, there were dreams.
Before the books, there were experiences.
The fiction became the map.

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Enter the living realm of the Siren Concord — where memory sings, desire becomes law, and no soul is ever truly forgotten.

In this second volume of The Hermit Atlas, Francisco M. Martinez opens the gates to one of the most haunting civilizations in the Atlas mythos: The Siren Concord, an ancient hive-realm born from the First Song and ruled by the eternal will of the Chorus.

The Hermit Atlas Volume II: The Siren Concord (The Hermit Book Series) The Hermit Atlas Volume II: The Siren Concord (The Hermit Book Series)

The Hermit Atlas Volume II: The Siren Concord is an illustrated companion book to The Hermit series, not a novel. It's 312 pages of full color information and illustrations, maps, rituals, locations, lore, and visual world building from The Hermit universe: premium, glossy full-color Kindle and Paperback.

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WWII. Ardennes. A “special project” opens a door no artillery can close. Sergeant Caldwell is infected, hunted, and running out of time. If the gate stays open, the war turns into something older than war.

The Last Door The Last Door