(April 5, 2018 at 6:55 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I always wondered if the book was any better.
And what was up with the ending?
Read the book, it was an okay space story expanded from a short story.
The ending is the Monolith Makers rebuilding a human into the next stage of humanity. They let him live out his life before "restarting" him with all kinds of extras. The Space Child thing was dropped in the next books.