N.K. Jemisin won three Hugo Awards in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy, a science fictional world where the protagonist is a middle-aged Black woman (and mother). But to get to that point, she’d had to bend to publishers’ desires for mostly white characters in her previous trilogy. So excuse her if she now takes on Lovecraftian evil – yes, Cthulhu, but “with a group of diverse characters facing off against it – and against, pointedly, the man-bunned alt-right trolls it recruits to fight for it.” – The Guardian (UK)