“You mean they invented large brains, tool use, culture, swarming and malthusian trap evasion AT THE SAME TIME? Who leaked the cheat codes?”
In an insidious twist on cryogenic immortality, criminals have invented the cryolocker, freezing people and holding them for ransom
[tale of human ambition]↵↵[atrocious pun, but taken seriously]↵↵[neat invention, thinly disguised as story]
It appears that I have inadvertently invented a word: Golemistics (the art and science of golems and their creation)