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'''Dot Dash''' is a collection of short stories by [[Jonathan Pinnock]]. It is his first collection and was published by [https://www.saltpublishing.com Salt Publishing] in November 2012.

==Blurb==
Prepare to enter a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where elephants squat in living rooms, plastic ducks fall from the skies and even the rabbits can’t be trusted. The fifty-eight stories in Jonathan Pinnock’s Scott Prize-winning collection Dot Dash show a vivid yet disciplined imagination at work.

These stories, many of which have individually won prizes, are populated by a rich variety of characters, including a tightrope-walking couple with marital issues, a graffiti artist with an agenda and an interviewee who’s about to find out some awkward truths about himself. Very few of them turn out to be completely innocent, and none of them remains unaffected by the experience.

Jonathan Pinnock’s unashamedly entertaining fictions explore what happens when the macabre and the absurd crash headlong into everyday life. As writer Tania Hershman says, he ‘isn’t content to just pull back the curtain, but sets fire to it and chuckles as it blazes’. With this incendiary first collection, he invites readers to pull up a chair and watch the flames rise.

==Critical Reception==
''Dot Dash'' was released to a tsunami of indifference from the world of criticism. However, eventually the late-lamented ''Independent on Sunday'' came up with a four-star review describing the book as

{{quote|an entertaining collection of grotesque, fantastic, pungent little tales}}

which I guess will do.

==Relevance to the Mathematical Mysteries==
Dot Dash contains the story ''Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions'', in which [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Archie and Pye]] make their first appearance, along with [[µ]] and [[Jennifer Standage|Mrs Standage]], although the latter's story arc is somewhat different from the one in ''[[The Truth About Archie and Pye]]''. There's more about this story in the [https://www.jonathanpinnock.com/wiki_dotdash/index.php/Mathematical_Puzzles_and_Diversions Dashipedia].

==Trivia==
When it was originally submitted to Salt's Scott Prize competition, ''Dot Dash'' was entitled ''dot(.) dash(-)''. Fortunately, this was changed prior to publication.

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 | language     = English
 | cover_artist = Christopher Hamilton-Emery
-| publisher    = [https://www.saltpublishing.com]
+| publisher    = [https://www.saltpublishing.com Salt Publishing]
 | pub_date     = 2012
 | isbn         = 978-1-84471-882-5

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 ==Relevance to the Mathematical Mysteries==
-Dot Dash contains the story ''Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions'', in which [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Archie and Pye]] make their first appearance, along with [[µ]] and [[Jennifer Standage|Mrs Standage]], although the latter's story arc is very different to the one in ''[[The Truth About Archie and Pye]]''. There's more about this in the [https://www.jonathanpinnock.com/wiki_dotdash/index.php/Mathematical_Puzzles_and_Diversions Dashipedia].
+''Dot Dash'' contains the story ''Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions'', in which [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Archie and Pye]] make their first appearance, along with [[µ]] and [[Jennifer Standage|Mrs Standage]], although the latter's story arc is very different to the one in ''[[The Truth About Archie and Pye]]''. There's more about this in the [https://www.jonathanpinnock.com/wiki_dotdash/index.php/Mathematical_Puzzles_and_Diversions Dashipedia].
 ==Trivia==
 When it was originally submitted to Salt's Scott Prize competition, ''Dot Dash'' was entitled ''dot(.) dash(-)''. I have no idea why. Fortunately, this was changed prior to publication.

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 ==Relevance to the Mathematical Mysteries==
-Dot Dash contains the story ''Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions'', in which [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Archie and Pye]] make their first appearance, along with [[µ]] and [[Jennifer Standage|Mrs Standage]], although the latter's story arc is somewhat different from the one in ''[[The Truth About Archie and Pye]]''. There's more about this in the [https://www.jonathanpinnock.com/wiki_dotdash/index.php/Mathematical_Puzzles_and_Diversions Dashipedia].
+Dot Dash contains the story ''Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions'', in which [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Archie and Pye]] make their first appearance, along with [[µ]] and [[Jennifer Standage|Mrs Standage]], although the latter's story arc is very different to the one in ''[[The Truth About Archie and Pye]]''. There's more about this in the [https://www.jonathanpinnock.com/wiki_dotdash/index.php/Mathematical_Puzzles_and_Diversions Dashipedia].
 ==Trivia==
 When it was originally submitted to Salt's Scott Prize competition, ''Dot Dash'' was entitled ''dot(.) dash(-)''. I have no idea why. Fortunately, this was changed prior to publication.

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 '''Dot Dash''' is a collection of short stories by [[Jonathan Pinnock]]. It is his first collection and was published by [https://www.saltpublishing.com Salt Publishing] in November 2012.

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 ''Dot Dash'' was released to a tsunami of indifference from the world of criticism. However, eventually the late-lamented ''Independent on Sunday'' came up with a four-star review describing the book as
-{{quote|an entertaining collection of grotesque, fantastic, pungent little tales}}
+{{quote|an entertaining collection of grotesque, fantastic, pungent little tales.}}
-which I guess will do.
+Which was nice.
 ==Relevance to the Mathematical Mysteries==