This novel begins with a world that has recently become very cloudy - there is constant greyish twilight at the ground level. Some kinds of plants are dying off, though IIRC people are growing more mushrooms so famine isn't imminent. The bad guy is a rich fat man who has discovered that in absolutely perfect conditions humans will metamorphose into flying creatures; I think they were more like giant moths than angels or something. "Perfect conditions" meant getting enormously fat to have enough reserves to survive the metamorphosis, then living in a big bath tub filled with mineral water. In the end of the book the main character finds the bad guy in this state, in a building so tall it is above the cloud level, and normally only rich people and their servants can go up into the building. (Not the Clouded World series, if anyone was going to suggest that.)
In Empire Strikes Back , we see a transcription of what R2's beeps and bloops mean, but it's not English (sorry for the low quality, it's from the 2004 DVDs): I'd assume it's what Basic looks like when written, but is there some point in the the Star Wars films we see written English instead? (This sort of spun off from a discussion in How do people understand astromech droids? .) Answer At one point there was English but it has been phased out in subsequent versions of the films. Chris Gould at DVD Active did a comparison of all versions of each of the Star Wars films, and in his comparison of Episode 4 , there are a couple of screenshots showing how the power gauge for the Death Star tractor beam was changed. I imagine there are probably more to be found in his other comparisons but I haven't got around to reading those yet.
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