The Development

The Development is a book of interrelated short stories by American writer John Barth, published in 2008. The stories are set in the Heron Bay Estates gated community for the elderly in Maryland Tidewater.[1]

Stories

  1. "Peeping Tom"
  2. "Toga Party"
  3. "Teardown"
  4. "The Bard Award"
  5. "Progressive Dinner"
  6. "Us/Them"
  7. "Assisted Living"
  8. "The End"
  9. "Rebeginning"
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gollark: Emergency die ejection is a useful feature!
gollark: If you use 100% CPU the fans may actually cause it to lift off your lap while depleting the battery at 0.5% a second.
gollark: Also, some things actually need and can use overly large integers now even if they're not being used for memory addresses, which would be silly.
gollark: As far as I'm aware, quantum stuff can mostly just accelerate specific algorithms and will be relegated to expensive coprocessors like GPUs.

References

Works cited

  • Birkerts, Sven (2008-10-05). "Lost in the Rest Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-14.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading


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