内容简介

17则短篇，上演陈浩基的脑洞宇宙。有无法预料的恶意：渴望成为作家的青年，在光天化日之下构思犯罪，只因编辑对他说：“想出道，先杀一个人看看！”也有颠倒常规的奇想：男子醒来后想喝咖啡，却发现这种饮品被禁止，更惊人的是，小孩子抽烟竟然合法？或是回归日常：教授在一堂课发起推理游戏，只要找出隐藏身份的助教，就能直接获得A等成绩！……百变叙事（推理、恐怖、科幻、奇幻、童话）×社会议题（禁烟、教唆罪、网络隐私），惊奇不断的狂想故事集，让人直呼荒谬又完全信服。

作者简介

陈浩基，香港中文大学计算机科学系毕业，台湾推理作家协会成员。2008年以童话推理作品《杰克魔豆杀人事件》入围“台湾推理作家协会征文奖”决选，2009年再以续作《蓝胡子的密室》及犯罪推理作品《窥伺蓝色的蓝》同时入围决选，并以《蓝胡子的密室》赢得首奖。2011年，则以《遗忘·刑警》荣获“岛田庄司推理小说奖”首奖。

2015年，长篇代表作《13·67》创下个人高峰，不但获颁“台北书展大奖”“诚品书店阅读职人大赏”“香港文学季推荐奖”，日文版更一举囊括2017年“《周刊文春》十大推理小说”、原书房“十大本格推理小说”海外部门双料第yi名和2018年宝岛社“这本推理小说了不起！”海外部门第2名、“本屋大赏”翻译小说部门第2名、booklog海外小说大赏，创下华文推理小说在日本出版界的空前纪录。该书目前已售出美、英、法、意等十多国版权，并即将改编成华语、韩语电影和连续剧。

另著有《幸存者》《气球人》《魔虫人间》《大魔法搜查线》《网内人》《山羊狞笑的刹那》《魔笛：童话推理事件簿》，以及他人合著《暗黑密使》《S.T.E.P.》《侦探冰室》《筷：怪谈竞演奇物语》。

精彩书评

陈浩基作品的妙味其实很大程度上彰显在他的中短篇作品里，《第欧根尼变奏曲》便是证明。这本作品集结了陈浩基历年来风格与类型迥异的中短篇小说十七篇，其中《窥伺蓝色的蓝》与《隐身的X》堪称华文短篇推理小说的经典之作。

——林斯谚（台湾推理小说家）

陈浩基娴熟“推理”当中的各种子类型，这些短篇的创作有部分还以科幻或奇幻设定包装，而且仍有坚实的推理核心，想象力丰富，内容多变，相当有趣。

——卧斧（台湾推理小说家）

《第欧根尼变奏曲》并不是一本从青涩横跨到老练的成长记录，更不是一本十年有成精选集；我会以生物学的观点来综观，那像是一棵不断分岔伸展出去的演化树——其中没有高下之分，但肯定有先来后到的次序，以及自我的蜕变的种种过程。当然，读者可以一篇篇轻松惬意地阅读，单纯享受故事中的趣味与娱乐，不过，倘若你极喜欢陈浩基过去的长篇如《13·67》《遗忘·刑警》《网内人》，或许可同我一样，用更全面的观点来看待这位作家的各篇作品，相信定能感受到其源源不断的创造力与撼动力。

——冬阳（台湾推理评论家）

Content introduction

17 short stories, staged Chan Ho-ji's imagination universe. There is unexpected malice: the young man who aspires to be a writer conceives a crime in broad daylight because his editor says to him: "If you want to make your debut, kill someone first!" There are also the whimsy of reversing the norm: men wake up to drink coffee, only to find that the drink is banned, and, astonishingly, that it is legal for children to smoke. Or return to everyday life: the professor initiates A reasoning game in one class, and as long as he finds out the hidden identity of the teaching assistant, he can directly get an A grade! ... Variable narrative (mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale) × social issues (smoking ban, solicitation of crime, Internet privacy), a collection of amazing and fantastical stories that make people call absurd and completely convincing.

About the author

Chan Ho-kee graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Computer Science and is a member of the Taiwan Mystery Writers Association. In 2008, the fairy tale mystery work "Jack Magic Bean Murder Incident" was shortlisted for the "Taiwan Mystery Writers Association Essay Award", and in 2009, the sequel "Blue Beard's Secret Room" and the crime mystery work "Spy Blue Blue" were shortlisted for the same time, and won the first prize with "Blue Beard's Secret Room". In 2011, he won the first prize of the "Shimada Shoji Mystery Novel Award" for "Forgotten Police".

In 2015, the full-length masterpiece "13·67" reached a personal peak, which not only won the "Taipei Book Fair Award", "Esprit Bookstore Readers Award", "Hong Kong Literature Season Recommendation Award", The Japanese edition also included the 2017 "Weekly Bunchun" Top ten mystery novels ", the original study "Top Ten Bunge mystery novels" overseas department double No. yi and the 2018 Baodao Society "This mystery novel is great!" Second place in the Overseas department, second place in the "Honya Prize" Translated Novels Department, and booklog Overseas Novels Award, setting an unprecedented record for Chinese mystery novels in the Japanese publishing industry. The book has sold its copyright in more than 10 countries, including the United States, Britain, France and Italy, and will soon be adapted into Chinese and Korean movies and TV series.

He is also the author of "Survivor", "Balloon Man", "Demon Bug Man", "The Big Magic Search Line", "Inside the Net", "The Moment when the Goat Laughs", "The Magic Flute: The Book of Fairy Tale Reasoning Events", and co-authored "Dark Secret Agent", "S.T.E.P.", "Detective Ice Room", "Chopsticks: Strange Things."

Wonderful book review

In fact, the wonderful taste of Chen Haoji's works is largely manifested in his short and medium works, the Diogenes Variations is a proof. This work is a collection of 17 short stories of different styles and types by Chen Haoji over the years, among which "Watch for Blue Blue" and "Invisible X" are classics of Chinese short mystery novels.

-- Linyan (Taiwan mystery novelist)

Chen Haoji is skilled in the various seed types of "reasoning", some of these short creations are also packaged in science fiction or fantasy Settings, and still have a solid core of reasoning, rich imagination, varied content, and quite interesting.

-- Lying Axe (Taiwan mystery novelist)

Diogenes Variations is not a record of growth from youth to sophistication, let alone a collection of ten years of success; I would look at it from a biological point of view, like an evolutionary tree that is constantly branching out - there is no superior or inferior, but there is certainly an order of coming and coming, and various processes of self-transformation. Of course, readers can easily read one article and simply enjoy the fun and entertainment in the story, but if you like Chen Haoji's past long works such as "13·67", "Forget · Interpol" and "People in the network", or maybe like me, with a more comprehensive view of the writer's works, I believe that you can feel its continuous creativity and dynamics.

-- Dong Yang, Taiwan mystery critic