About
Allen Kamrava is a surgeon in Los Angeles and the father of four. The Measure is his first novel.
Who the books are for
I have four children. This was written for them first, and every chapter was tested against the hardest audience there is: people who will tell you, immediately and without kindness, when something does not make sense.
Why the physics holds up
Allen Kamrava is a surgeon and associate teaching faculty at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, and the father of four.
Why gravity
Magic that can do anything isn't interesting. Gravity is.
It's the only force everyone has already felt. You've been held down by it every second of your life, nobody ever taught you how it works, and physicists still can't reconcile it with the rest of what they know. That gap is where this book lives.
So the rule came before the story: you cannot make gravity, only move it. Every bend is borrowed, and somebody, somewhere, pays for it. Once that was fixed, nothing in seven books was allowed to break it — not for the hero, and not when it would have been convenient.
Before the books
Before The Measure he founded a company that tried to make veterinary care affordable by letting pet owners share costs directly; it ran for five years and closed in 2022 under regulatory pressure he could not afford to fight. He races triathlon, badly. The Measure is his first novel, and the first of seven.
The public byline for the books is Allen Kamrava.
How it was built
The world was finished before the first sentence was written. Seven books of physics, history, institutions and consequence, argued out and written down, so that by the time anything reached the page every fact it stood on already existed and could not be contradicted. It is a strange way to write a novel. It is a very good way to write seven.
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