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Chiang’s storytelling is rooted in age-old tropes and references — the Old Testament, golems, Victoriana, high school algebra.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Your mission is to unite the assorted Overworld mobs of golems, zombies, skeletons and such while building defensive structures and attacking enemy outposts.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Discussions about aliens, golems, and animals occupy very different parts of Jewish thought.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2022

Prague is an eerie place, a Jewish city without Jews, with ghosts and golems emerging from behind the now brightly painted facades of what is Europe’s most beautiful and haunted city.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2012

I grew up on stories of holy men parting the river Bistrița, golems shaped from clay, and, of course, those possessive spirits called dybbukim.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros