Joy

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...

After an eccentric billionaire creates a drug called INOC which stops the aging process effectively eliminating death itself, the future of a world where death no longer exists is seen. Through a seemingly harmless children's toy, the story of the fate of mankind is told while also revealing an elusive truth to its unknowing spectator.

 马里亚诺·德·桑蒂斯是意大利共和国总统。此人与现实中的任何总统均无关联，完全是作者虚构的人物。他丧偶多年，且信奉天主教，有一个女儿名叫多罗泰亚——和他一样，女儿也是一名法律学者。任期即将结束之际，在波澜不惊的日常中，两项最后的职责摆在了他面前：就两份敏感的总统特赦申请做出决定。这些抉择构成了真正的道德困境，并且以看似无法理清的方式，与他的私人生活纠缠在了一起。在疑虑的驱使下，他必须做出抉择。而这位杰出的意大利总统，怀着强烈的责任感，必将履行这份职责。