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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[1])and a city whose (-5[1])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 (10[1])Gabriel after surviving a plane crash over the English Channel with Saladin. In a novel by this author, telepathic powers are acquired (10[2])by (10[1])all babies born at the hour of India’s partition. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this British-Indian (10[1])author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. (10[1])■END■

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