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A children’s book by this author takes place on a moon whose orbit is a "Process Too Complicated To Explain” (-5[2])and a city whose residents eat “glumfish.” This author wrote a novel where a doctor comes home to his wife covered in blood, which she mistakes for Mercurochrome. The mountaineer Allie Cone is murdered in a book by this author by a man who believes himself to be the angel Gabriel after surviving a plane (10[1])crash (10[1])over the (10[1])English Channel with Saladin. In a novel by this author, telepathic powers (10[1])are acquired (10[1])by all babies born at the hour (10[1])of India’s partition. For 10 points, name this British-Indian author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. ■END■ (0[1])

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