The Deep

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The Deep is a science fiction novella by Rivers Solomon that explores memory, trauma, and identity through the story of an underwater society descended from African women thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade.

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The Deep canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf novella
science fiction work
speculative fiction work
author Rivers Solomon NERFINISHED
awarded Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (finalist) NERFINISHED
basedOn The Deep (song by clipping.) NERFINISHED
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Rachelle Baker NERFINISHED
featuresFictionalSpecies wajinru
genre Afrofuturism
fantasy
science fiction
speculative fiction
hasSubject African diaspora NERFINISHED
community memory
queer identity
transatlantic slave trade
inspiredBy music group clipping.
ISBN-13 978-1534439863
language English
literaryForm novella
mainCharacter Yetu NERFINISHED
medium ebook
print
narrativePerspective third-person limited
nominatedFor Hugo Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED
Locus Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED
Nebula Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED
originalPublicationYear 2019
pageCount 176
plotFocus underwater society descended from African women thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade
protagonist Yetu NERFINISHED
publicationDate 2019-11-05
publisher Saga Press NERFINISHED
publisherImprint Saga Press (Simon & Schuster imprint) NERFINISHED
setting Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED
underwater society
theme belonging
collective memory
diaspora
identity
intergenerational trauma
memory
self-determination
slavery
trauma

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: The Deep
Description of subject: The Deep is a science fiction novella by Rivers Solomon that explores memory, trauma, and identity through the story of an underwater society descended from African women thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade.

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