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 time Keeps on Slippin' , Farnsworth creates a basketball team which he matures by abusing Chronitons. This leads to time skipping forward by random, but ever increasing amounts. How much time was skipped in this way? Answer Unfortunately, I don't think a good estimate can be made for this, for two reasons: Many of the time skips move forward by an indeterminate amount of time. At one point, the Professor mentions localized regions of space skipping forward much more than others. We then see two young boys on the street below complaining about having to pay social security, only to suddenly become senior citizens and start complaining about wanting their money. Thus, each individual could have experienced a different amount of time skippage.
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