The book is weird tho...
The book is weird tho... Written by Arthur C. Clarke:
Here's how it ends:
David Bowman, knowing he won't ever come back alive, descends in a spacepod to the slab of blackness on Saturn's moon ala dimension 1, 4, 9 (the perfect roots of squares). Turns, out the slab was a teleporter. It turns inside out, teleporting him to weird space... where he travels through another darkness slab to a red sun. On the red sun, he finds that he is not vaporized and in a replicated hotel made by "aliens". So he eats goo, falls asleep. When he slept, the "alien beings" (materless) slowly rewind his memory back in time, transfering them to a new being which does not depend on matter (The StarChild). So he is David no more, but a god like star-child. Being the StarChild, he could see beyong the slab's dimension 1,4, 9,16,25 etc. So he wisps back above earth and detonates all the floating nuclear space bombs, thus killing every1 on earth.
The author of the book had to be a psycho...