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.
Cool, I heard he coined the name cyberspace in one of his short stories.