Since I've had a lot of free time over the summer, I've decided to start writing my first book.
That sounds fun. Fiction is usually a story meant to be entertaining. Is that what you are writing?
How did you know it was going to be a fiction story?  I was thinking of a cyberpunk story, something like Neuromancer. 
Neat, I was just wondering about Typewriter in the Sky, which I thought might be of interest to you!
You won't catch me anywhere near an L. Ron Hubbard book.  I always hated seeing the commercials for Dianetics growing up.
Oh yeah, I understand. He put his ideas into doctrines that are practiced as Scientology. 
I didn't even know that until I got older.  It was just annoying seeing that dumb volcano from the cover every commercial break.
Ha, I got ya. Yeah, his writings apparently became the guiding texts for Scientology. 
Again, why I'm avoiding his books and sticking with William Gibson if I'm in the mood for sci-fi.
coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel "Neuromancer" (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
After expanding on the story in "Neuromancer" with two more novels, thus completing the dystopic "Sprawl" trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel "The Difference
" about a rejected lover. She states "It was good fun writing with him [Hopper] because I don't normally co-write. I have tried to do it in the past. I've done a little bit of songwriting with my dad and one of my mates. I found it a lot more comfortable writing with someone I know really well. You are pouring your heart out and giving them your deepest darkest secret and feelings. It is hard to sit down with a total stranger and do that.