About the Author

J.R. Stewart has worked on many corporate projects throughout a prolific IT academic and consulting career, and has been involved with many confidential virtual reality projects. After working on advanced VR technologies for over a decade, Stewart grew concerned about the implications of this work and the possible psychological effects that it may have on its users.

Reviews

If you enjoy futuristic what-if books like The Hunger Games or The Matrix, give this series a read. - Victoria Harvey, Ivy's Ecclectic Reviews "Intriguing meld of virtual reality, species extinction, and corporate evil." - Wendy Stephens, Director, United States Board on Books for Young People This is the absolutely best work of fiction about virtual reality that I have ever read. The blurring of the line between reality and virtual reality has never been more powerfully displayed in anything I have read. - Rhetta Akamatsu, Reviewer at Blog Critics Magazine "This book is filled with surprises, making it impossible to put down." - Sandra Brazier, Goodreads Reviewer. "In this book, J.R. Stewart cleverly disguises his concern about virtual reality and the powers over the public that it gives to its creator. Through his book, he really makes the reader reconsider the truth in his or her daily life." - Sandra Brazier, Goodreads Reviewer. "J.R. Stewart has written a masterpiece. Combining a post-apocalyptic dystopian society with virtual reality is sheer genius...[T]his is a dystopian society book that you simply must read." - Charli Gamble, The Goth Girl Reads. "This book had my attention from the very beginning. The further into the book I got, the more nervous I became. Well written, and a little nerve wracking given how close to reality it is." - Debbie Young, Goodreads Reviewer. "Stewart creates a new world with this novel. A world that has world within it. As well as plots, different schemes, friendship, skewed friendship, hate, treachery, backstabbing, etc. This book has so many things in it but it works." - Denise Wheelock, Goodreads Reviewer. "This is my first book by J.R. Stewart and it won't be my last." - Simera King, Goodreads Reviewer. "This is so much more than just a story set in the future, this could literally be our reality.This book has left me with a nagging feeling that one day someone looking back in history will say "Didn't someone once write about this happening in a book?" - Susan Hampson, Goodreads Reviewer. "NIRVANA by J. R. Stewart, an amazing story by a very skillful writer, started out interestingly enough, where a secret was formed in the darkness that caused a situation to come up in which there could be no escape." - Wanda Maynard., Advance Reviewer. "Terrifyingly realistic...I want my own kids to read this for the lessons in the story. Virtual reality and the lure of mental escape is not a substitute for paying attention to politics." - Cat Jennings, Reviewer. "Great read! Full of mystery and intrigue." - Fizza Younis, Goodreads Reviewer. "I believe this is less a doomsday premise than it is a wake up call." - Barb Heck, Goodreads Reviewer. "Nirvana has got me hooked, I can't wait till the second book comes out, to find out what happens, it's something I can't miss out on." - Amber Cooper, Blogger. "I thought the ideas and possibilities explored about virtual reality were intriguing, particularly as the story progressed and these possibilities multiplied." - Patricia Hamill, Blogger. "Combining a post-apocalyptic dystopian society with virtual reality makes it an interesting read." - Zaheerah Khalik, Goodreads Reviewer. "... I think it's a series worth keeping an eye on, as there are interesting plot lines, characters with plenty of hidden agendas and room for development, and a whole world that we've only glimpsed. And virtual reality as you haven't seen it yet." - Olga Nunez Miret, Reviewer at BTS e-magazine "The world created is similar in some ways to that in the Hunger Games..." - Alison Campbell, Blogger at I Wuv Books. "Nirvana did a great job in separating itself from the current speculative fiction genre..."The development of a failing world, dark secrets and unrivaled corporations is a chilling and realistic premonition of our society's future." - Deborah Cole, Blogger at Silk&Serif.